February 2012

This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]

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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]

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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]

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Shobita Parthasarathy is an Associate Professor at University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. She is also a member of the Risk Science Center and sits on our Internal Advisory Board. Dr. Parthasarathy is currently on sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of [...]

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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]

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This article is Cross Posted from Mind the Science Gap. Under the guidance of the Risk Science Center’s director Andrew Maynard, for ten weeks between January and April 2012, Ten Masters of Public Health students from the University of Michigan will post weekly articles, translating complex sciences into accessible science communication for a broad audience. [...]

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“There is a cure for poverty.  It is a rudimentary one, it does work, though.  It works everywhere, and for the same reason.  It’s colloquially called ‘the empowerment of women.’  It’s the only thing that does work.  If you allow women control over their cycle of reproduction, so that they are not chained by their [...]

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