Tag Public Health

Heritage seeds as a sustainable solution to water scarcity, food scarcity & global warming

As a sustainability response to climate change and global warming, one strategy that you don’t hear about a lot is farming using heritage seeds. Heritage food plants are plants native to an area and that propagate naturally (as apposed to…

Angela Kirwin
September 4, 2009

Bioethics of Poverty or “Structural Violence”

The greatest bioethics issue of today is the existence of economic and social barriers to health and adequate medical care. In the United States, with the lack of universal healthcare, these barriers are growing with the poverty rate that has…

Angela Kirwin
June 8, 2009

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