Category: Humanities

Sex Education in Public Schools

  Abstract Sex education permeates the public school system, but in its current form it is failing to adequately teach students about sex and sexuality. Rates of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections are...

FOREWORD: Elderly Patients in the Emergency Department

  Abstract In this foreword to obervation articles by Arendas and Joyner, Natalia Aquino-Torres examines how emergency departments have had to adapt in order to accomodate elderly patients.   Elderly adults 65 years and...

How Capitalism is a Driving Force of Climate Change

  Abstract Global economic growth leads to the increased consumption of natural resources, pollution, and loss of biodiversity and simultaneously widens the income gap between the wealthy and the poor. Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York...