| Events by Sally Satel |
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The Insanity Offense: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
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Monday, June 9, 2008
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| Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey discusses his book The Insanity Offense; a panel of specialists will comment. |
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Gross National Happiness
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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| In this provocative new book, Arthur C. Brooks examines vast amounts of evidence and empirical research to explode the myths about happiness in America and uncover the truth about who is happy, who |
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Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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| At this event, Alvin Roth will present a paper on repugnance and markets which examines various dimensions of the “yuck” factor. Sally Satel, M.D., Paul Bloom, and Michael Novak will consider key |
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Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People
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Monday, October 29, 2007
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| Discussants join John Entine in discussing the role of DNA in transforming our understanding of human potential, and its vast implications for medicine, education, science, and law. |
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Is There a Constitutional Right to Medical Self-Defense?
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Friday, December 8, 2006
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| Is medical self-defense a coherent legal concept that can justify constitutional intervention by courts in controversial cases regarding abortion or organ sales? |
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Buy or Die: Market Mechanisms to Reduce the National Organ Shortage
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Monday, June 12, 2006
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| Panelists at this event will discuss incentives, including payment, as a viable remedy to enhance the supply of lifesaving organs. |
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An Analytic Assessment of U.S. Drug Policy
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Thursday, March 9, 2006
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| David Boyum and Peter Reuter provide an assessment of how poorly the U.S.'s massive investment of tax dollars and government authority is working. |
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The Health Disparities Myth
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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| Many experts today insist that a patient's race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. |
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Soldiers, Psyche, and the Department of Veterans Affairs
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Monday, November 7, 2005
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| Discussion of the Vietnam generation's lessons for veteran rehabilitation and how to apply those lessons to the treatment of new veterans. |
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Disaster Relief
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Thursday, November 3, 2005
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| Now that the waters have receded and the rebuilding effort is underway, it is necessary to evaluate the relief effort for its failures and its successes in response to the calamitous storm. |
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| Domestic drug policy |
| Mental health policy (including the psychological impact of war and disasters) |
| Political trends in medicine |
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| Contact Information |
Sally Satel
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-7154
Assistant: 202-828-6037
Fax: 202-862-7178
E-mail: SSatel@aei.org
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The Health Disparities Myth
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| The authors of this book conclude that differences in treatment vary by race but not because of it. [Read More] |
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