Background: Stress is a critical problem facing many healthcare institutions. The consequences of stress include increased provider burnout and decreased quality of care for patients. Ironically, a key factor that may help buffer the impact of stress on provider well-being and patient health outcomes—compassion—is low in healthcare settings and declines under stress. This gives rise to an urgen...

The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies arising from informational asymmetries between expert sellers and customers. While standard theory predicts that inefficiencies disappear if customers can verify the quality received, verifiability fails to yield efficiency in experiments with endogenous price...

Frequently, philosophers use examples to make their ideas clearer readers. Later, commentators take these and go beyond the philosophers’ original intentions. This doubtless occurs because example is so well-chosen that it prompts questions or problems did not concern example’s originator at time. While may serve its context well, however, cannot respond for which was devised. case with famous ...

Abstract In this article I examine the moral dimensions of gender-affirmation. argue that value gender-affirmation is rooted in what Iris Murdoch called loving attention. Loving attention central to because such affirmation otherwise too fragile or insincere have value. Moral reasons engage acts gender-affirm derive from commitment give and express trans people as a way challenging their margin...