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In the UK, nobody collects patients’ insurance information or credit card details. There’s simply no charge for services, including doctor visits, ambulances and hospitalizations.
The United Kingdom does not have a written constitution or a specific plan for what to do if the prime minister is too ill to perform official duties.
In the past, maintaining physical distance was an important aspect of public life – and clothes played a big role.
Early Christians were urged to ‘supervise’ one another. In the present times, that theology is often used by the Vatican for a religious investigation a known as the apostolic visitation.
People who support Brexit want different results from the UK’s departure from the EU – and they can’t all get what they want.
High prescription drug costs are a widespread concern for consumers and policymakers. For patients who need specialty drugs, though, the problem is even worse, with no relief in sight.
Seven US bishops have been removed for covering up clergy sexual abuse since 2015 after decades of no accountability. An expert explains how Catholic movements and whistleblowers forced this change.
Despite many attempts, the Kurds have never won and kept their own nation – though, after World War I, they came close.
Voters are primarily partisans, and they respond to party signals – even when they claim otherwise.
En los años 20 y principios de los 30, sectores de la prensa estadounidense normalizaron el ascenso del fascismo.
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for medicine, but safeguards are needed to ensure it does not harm patients.
Most universities focus on teaching basic sciences with little reference to commercialisation of ideas and new technologies.
Last year, Pennsylvania’s grand jury report uncovered sexual abuse allegations by over 300 priests. A scholar explains how the report may have helped survivors come to terms with a painful past.
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don’t share, writes one historian, is the label ‘liberal.’
Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson’s career, says the man is hard to pin down.
Doctor depression, burnout and suicide have been rising for some time, and overwork was considered the norm. A health care lawyer explains why the legal and regulatory systems must intervene.
Children can be especially vulnerable to being wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement actions.
President Trump has been backing transparency in hospital pricing so that consumers can compare prices. But will that help when the real deals are done in secret?
The more candidates that there are, the likelier it is that voters cannot come to a consensus on the best candidate.
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Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor and Director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Case Western Reserve University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
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Teaching Fellow and Instructor of History, Case Western Reserve University
