Diem-Tran (Bijou) Nguyen is a senior at USC pursuing a major in history and minor in natural science. She plans on attending medical school after graduation. She is originally from Huntington Beach and is the oldest of four children. She loves working with children and animals, trying new places to eat, and traveling. Though the … [Read more...] about Male Circumcision: Should It Make The Cut?
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To Take or Not To Take: The Ethics in Harvesting Cadaver Organs
Nethika Ariyasinghe is from Waco, Texas. She graduated with her BS in Biomedical Engineering in May 2013 and currently is a Ph.D student in Biomedical Engineering at USC. In her free time, she enjoys running and exploring Los … [Read more...] about To Take or Not To Take: The Ethics in Harvesting Cadaver Organs
WEIRD SCIENCE: Robots in Healthcare
Robots are pretty awesome. Most people have an idea of robots formed by popular culture representations, but the direction the actual robotics world is traveling has less flash and more pragmatism. Science fiction has long focused on philosophical questions of the essence of humanity and the moral qualms involved in creating an automaton that can ‘feel.’ However, robotic … [Read more...] about WEIRD SCIENCE: Robots in Healthcare
Palliative Care: An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nahel Kapadia graduated in May 2013, majoring in Biological Sciences. Kate Cheney was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer at eighty-five years old. She requested assisted suicide, but her doctor refused to prescribe the lethal medication and instead referred her to a psychiatrist. Again, Kate was denied the … [Read more...] about Palliative Care: An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide
Man, Machine, and Mars
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sara Clayton is a junior at the University of Southern California studying public relations with double minors in web technologies and mobile app development. It seems that mankind has been portrayed as always having been at odds with artificial intelligence, or AI. Take the sci-fi film I, Robot: Del Spooner (Will Smith) … [Read more...] about Man, Machine, and Mars