Victoria Wang

@vmywang.bsky.social

Perpetual student. Constantly confused and/or curious. Currently in Scotland, doing a PhD in philosophy.

The July issue of Public Health Ethics is online, including many gems. @vmywang.bsky.social 's paper "On the unfairness of the 'fair-share principle'" challenges the assumption that distributing research funding based on global burden of disease is an adequate approach. Don't neglect distal causes!

On the Unfairness of the ‘Fair-share Principle’ for Health Research

Abstract. How ought scarce health research resources be allocated, where health research spans basic, translational, clinical, health systems and public he

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— Ingeborg Bachmann (25/6/1926 - 17/10/1973) "Die gestundete Zeit Es kommen härtere Tage Die auf Widerruf gestundete Zeit wird sichtbar am Horizont. Bald musst Du den Schuh schnüren und die Hunde zurückjagen … —

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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes.Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine

In a shared office space, just swapped out a really clunky keyboard for a more modern one, only to find that the space bar makes a squeaking noise. My colleagues can now hear the silence of my thinker's/writer's block...