The Right to Health in Darfur: An unfulfilled promise

An unfulfilled promise of the Medicaid Act: enforcing Medicaid recipients' right to health care.

Pharmacogenetic Testing-An Unfulfilled Promise.

The Human Genome Project heralded great hope that the clinical use of individual genetic information would result in improved care through treatments tailored to an individual patient’s genotype. Such treatment would presumably reveal individual susceptibility to chronic diseases, thus preventing them, and lead to targeted pharmacotherapies based on an individual’s metabolism and susceptibility...

In re Gault at 40 : The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court - A Promise Unfulfilled

On May 15, 1967, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of In re Gerald Gault, [FN1] a case seemingly destined to change forever and for better the way children accused of crimes are treated in state juvenile courts. In its opinion, the Court held that children were “persons” under the United States Constitution, and as such, had to be treated fairly when the state sought to deprive t...

Health promotion in Canada: 25 years of unfulfilled promise.

Commemorations of the Ottawa Charter have become a bit of a growth industry in Canada. Health Canada organized a Tenth Anniversary Symposium (Potter, 1997) followed by a case study reviewing progress prepared for the Fourth International Conference on Health Promotion in Jakarta in 1997 (Health Canada, 1997), there was a 21st birthday event and series of publications both in Quebec (O’Neill et ...

Emotional intelligence: A promise unfulfilled?

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a relatively new construct in differential psychology. Proponents of EI have made strong claims for its importance in basic and applied psychology. This article considers whether the promise of EI has been fulfilled. We examine various fundamental challenges to establishing EI as a major individual differences factor, including cross-cultural issues. We then exami...