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Socioscientific issues (SSI) are issues with ties to science, but that cannot be resolved without also considering non-science aspects of the issue (climate change, bacteria's development of antibiotic resistance, genetic modification, etc.).To resolve an SSI, citizens must evaluate the affordances of scientific ways of knowing (such as understanding informed by the systematic collection and analysis of data) alongside non-science considerations (e.g., morality, ethics, politics, and the like). Since SSIs are often contentious and involve a diversity of non-science views, they result in polarity on a spectrum of views about the issue, which make SSIs difficult to resolve. Finding viable common ground between scientific and non-scientific views can create cooperation and lead to resolution of SSIs. Dr. Owens considers the potential for compassion to serve as a common ground and proposes a framework for considering science and non-science ways of knowing to understand and resolve contemporary, contentious SSI.

Conflicts arising in context of decision-making power granted to citizen boards; North Carolina; includes recommendations. Includes coverage of statutes, ordinances, regulations, and case law.

Owens and Visser review 'A Prescription for Adversity: The Moral Art of Ambrose Bierce' by Lawrence I. Berkove.

Background: Nonfatal self-harm is the strongest predictor of suicide, with some of the risk factors for subsequent suicide after nonfatal self-harm being similar to those for suicide in general. However, we do not have sufficient information regarding the medical care provided to nonfatal self-harm episodes preceding suicide. Aims: Our study sought to explore hospital care and predictive characteristics of the risk of suicide after nonfatal self-harm. Method: Individuals with history of nonfatal self-harm who died by suicide were compared with those who had a nonfatal self-harm episode but did not later die by suicide. Cases were identified by cross-linking data collected through a self-harm monitoring project, 2000–2007, and comprehensive local data on suicides for the same period. Results: Dying by suicide after nonfatal self-harm was more common for male subjects than for female subjects (OR = 3.3, 95% CI = 1.7–6.6). Self-injury as the method of nonfatal self-harm was associated with higher risk of subsequent suicide than was self-poisoning (OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.04–3.9). More urgent care at the emergency department (OR = 2.7, 95% CI = 1.1–6.3) and admission to hospital (OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.0–4.0) at the index episode were related to a heightened risk of suicide. Conclusion: The findings of our study could help services to form assessment and aftercare policies.