Speaking of accepting responsibility, I am planning to take the credit for this trend (also pdf, to print out and hang on your wall). Go to the Social Security Administration Website and investigate some trends for yourself. See the decline of the Heathers, the sudden, spectactular rise of the Ellas, and the terrible Hillary crash […]
Brayden King notes that the Wall Street Journal is concerned about ever-rising health care costs in the United States. I’ve been looking at data on national health systems for a paper I’m trying to write. It turns out that there’s a lot less theoretical work done on comparative health systems than you might think, certainly […]
I agree with Brayden. In a year when the theme of the ASA’s annual meeting is Public Sociologies, it’s appropriate that the winner of the ASA’s dissertation award is a Blogger. Congratulations to Brian Gifford and also co-winner Greta Krippner.
The Centers for Disease Control report that three people have died from rabies contracted after receiving transplants that originated with the same donor. The donors lungs, liver and kidneys were recovered. The lung recipient died during the transplant of unrelated causes. The recipients of both kidneys and the liver died of rabies. In their more […]
© Kieran Healy’s Weblog. Powered by WordPress using a modified DePo Clean Theme.