Background: Substance use disorders (SUDs) result in individual and societal burden. However, most individuals with SUD receive no treatment. Implementing SUD interventions in primary care could address this population's treatment needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe concept ethics defines health care ethics as a professional practice. Yet the meaning of "ethics" is often unclear in the theory and practice of clinical ethics. Clarity on this matter is crucial for understanding the nature of clinical ethics and for debates about the professional identity and proper role of ethicists, the sort of training and skills they should possess, and whether they have ethics expertise.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper studies student activism within higher education, examining the associated risks in varied cultural and historical contexts. Utilizing case studies from the United States on environmental sustainability within a business school and entrenched caste-based hierarchies in India, we describe how student activism was enacted to transform infrastructures of higher education. This study shows how students navigate institutional norms and power structures, and how risk shaped students' practices of activism and their learning.
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