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Prospective measures of aging for Central and South America.
PLoS One
September 2020
World Population Program, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
By conventional measures, it is often remarked that Central and South America is one of the fastest aging geographic regions in the world. In recent years, however, scholars have sought to problematize the orthodox measures and concepts employed in the aging literature. By not taking dynamic changes in life expectancy into account, measures which hold chronological age constant (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF2017 AMCA Presidential Address: Remarks On Leadership and the AMCA.
J Am Mosq Control Assoc
June 2017
AMCA, 1120 Route 73, Suite 200, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054.
I once heard John Arras, who was one of bioethics' bright lights and, toward the end of his life, a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, remark that it is hard for an ethics commission not to "do paint-by-numbers ethics." What I think Arras had in mind is an approach that, in the set of essays that make up this special report, Rebecca Dresser describes as a listing of "general, often relatively uncontroversial" moral positions to support largely procedural recommendations. Arras was calling attention to one of the challenges and sometimes frustrations of commission thinking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCampaigns and disability: When an incumbent president questions his potential successor's mental health status during the campaign.
Politics Life Sci
October 2016
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115,
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis knows about the damage that disability can cause--even its mere mention. In this keynote address given to the symposium on Presidential Disability and Succession held at Northeastern University in Boston last spring, Dukakis reflected on his famous 1988 presidential campaign that, largely at his expense, redefined negativity in presidential politics, in particular the fictitious allegation that he had a history of mental illness. A distinguish professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Northeastern University, Dukakis also spends each winter quarter at UCLA as a visiting professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs.
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