Monthly Archives: March 2012

Sexual misconduct in the field

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kate Clancy, continuing a series on sexual harassment and anthropological fieldwork has an important post up on her Scientific American site. Exploitation of power is very common in grad school settings, where graduate students often have no positive options available … Continue reading →

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Genetic testing and the health care “time bomb”

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Ezra Klein, writing in his blog for the Washington Post, draws attention to the most recent story in the New York Times about the increasingly low cost of comprehensive genetic screening. Klein predicts that in the absence of an individual … Continue reading →

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