Southern California Hospitals To Be Reimbursed For Undocumented Immigrant Care; Homosexuality and the Brain; Justice Blackmun; "Management Speak"
Southern California Hospitals To Be Reimbursed For Undocumented Immigrant Care
Larry Mantle talks with Jan Emerson, Vice President of External Affairs for the California Hospital Association, Gary Karr, Spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Reshma Shamasunder, Director of the California Immigrant Welfare Collaborative about hospitals being reimbursed the costs associated with treating undocumented immigrants.
Homosexuality and the Brain
Two new studies suggest brain differences between homosexual and heterosexual men. Larry Mantle talks with Sandra Witelson of McMaster University and Charles Wysocki , a behavioral neuroscientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia about the studies and about other recent research addressing the biological basis for gender identity.
Justice Blackmun
Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times Supreme Court correspondent, Linda Greenhouse, says Justice Harry Blackmun left a legacy of how to be a judge. Blackmun, who sat on the Supreme Court for 24 years, was something of a pack rat, having kept everything from hotel receipts to private exchanges between justices in many of the nearly 4,000 cases he heard. In her new book, Becoming Justice Blackmun; Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey, Greenhouse examines the life and legacy of the Justice best known as the writer of the opinion of Roe v. Wade. Blackmun also wrote numerous landmark decisions including a series of important opinions that gave First Amendment protection to advertising.
"Management Speak"
Writer Don Watson contends that practically everyone speaks “corporetese” these days; gibberish meant to conceal more than it reveals. Larry speaks with Watson, one of Australia’s best known writers, who argues that our language deserves better. Watson's new book is Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak are Strangling Public Language.