Profit motive faces stiff challenge

The Profit Motive

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The profit motive in medicine.

The ethical implications of the growth of for-profit health care institutions are complex. Two major moral criticisms of for-profit medicine are analyzed. The first claim is that for-profit health care institutions fail to fulfill their obligations to do their fair share in providing health care to the poor and so exacerbate the problem of access to health care. The second claim is that profit ...

The Profit Motive in Honors Education

Lung function and cardiovascular risk: a stiff challenge?

A lthough epidemiological evidence demonstrates an association between cardiovascular (CV) disease and impaired lung function that is independent of smoking, the mechanisms involved remain unclear. Aortic stiffness has emerged as a major independent predictor of CV risk in a number of population-based studies1 and an inverse association of lung function parameters and aortic stiffness using aor...

The Profit Motive: Can Corporate Networks be an Effective Conduit for Improving Worker Rights?

The rise of the anti-sweatshop movement in the 1990s made it clear that absent public pressure, multinational corporations tend to ignore the working conditions of employees in their subcontracted plants. Yet, these same corporations, once their profits became correlated with treatment of their workers, have implemented various policies aimed at promoting and protecting labor rights in their fa...