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  • Enhancement

    Rational Actors and Happy Actors

    By Nathaniel Counts Politics, theoretically at least, is a process designed to enhance the sense of wellbeing of its citizens.  The success of this process, the amount of wellbeing that can be created, is hamstrung…

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  • Bioethics

    Health Class and Personal Preferences

    By Nathaniel Counts High school health classes that are effective in preventing high-risk behaviors employ two educational models: the social influences model and the life skills model.  The social influences model teaches children about social…

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  • Disability

    Admissions and Mental Health

    By Nathaniel Counts In our legal system, colleges may not make admissions decisions in order to ameliorate historical (or presumably other) inequalities, but may make decisions that take into account the particular situation of the…

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  • Bioethics

    Diagnosing Mental Disorders from Internet Use

    By Nathaniel Counts We live in a time when increasingly our personal information is publicly available on the internet.  This personal information includes our names and phone numbers, things we’ve written and things we’ve done,…

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  • Bioethics

    Social Signaling and the Undoing of the Harm Principle

    By Nathaniel Counts In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill asserted that “[t]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm…

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  • Bioethics

    Potato Chips and Choice Architecture

    By Nathaniel Counts If, out of concern for public health, the government banned potato chips today, a lot of people would get very angry.  Only some of these people would be angry because they missed…

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  • Bioethics

    Prioritizing Parks and Patients

    By Nathaniel Counts During the government shutdown in October 2013, a battle in part over the future of healthcare reform, a non-negligible amount of media attention focused on the shutdown of public parks.  Perhaps because…

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  • Bioethics

    Managed Care for Mental Health

    By Nathaniel Counts Managed care and integration of primary care and mental health services are major foci of the Affordable Care Act, especially as more practices are encouraged to become Patient-Centered Medical Homes.  In managed…

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  • Global Health

    Only a Right to Health

    By Nathaniel Counts Human rights disaggregates otherwise related issues into separate rights.  We discuss rights to health, education, housing, association, etc., and, in countries where these rights are codified, we litigate each one separately in…

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  • Bioethics

    Personal Responsibility and the Procrastination Problem

    By Nathaniel Counts We have all been confronted with the procrastination problem in one form or another.  You have a paper due in a month, and you have two options.  You can either work on…

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