Health Information Held Hostage

Commentary: neonatal viability in the 1990s: held hostage by technology.

The emergence of new obstetrical and neonatal technologies, as well as more aggressive clinical management, has significantly improved the survival of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. This development has heightened concerns about the limits of viability. ELBW infants, weighing less than 1,000 grams and no larger than the palm of one’s hand, are often described as “miracles” of late t...

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Hostage Posting

We survey research on incurring commitments by voluntary hostage posting as a mechanism of cooperation. The Trust Game is employed as a paradigmatic example of cooperation problems. We sketch a very simple game-theoretic model that shows how voluntary hostage posting can bind the trustee and thus induce trustfulness of the trustor as well as trustworthiness of the trustee. We then indicate how ...

States Held Hostage: Political Hold-Up Problems and the Effects of International Institutions

This paper argues that the benefits of international institutions accrue disproportionately to pairs of states that find cooperation most difficult. It determines which states achieve the greatest gains from these institutions by identifying a central reason that states fail to cooperate in international relations: they fear being “held up” by other states for political concessions. Political h...

The Hostage Seekers

group of eighty couples, f?f * childless and forty adopfi^ parents, living in a fairly unsophi^ cated rural area. The author his interviewer worked closely ^ , the consultant of the local hospi*3 who had seen all these couples o^e their problem of infertility durinthe preceding ten years. The results of this research fascinating reading, sometimes ploding the tenderly held theor'e of many adopt...