Taking The Good With The Bad
According to KTVB.com, Idaho Inmate Jennifer Spencer has won a small battle in the fight to get hormone replacement therapy in prison. While this is definitely a win for humane treatment of prisoners and for transsexuals that are incarcerated in Idaho, I have to wonder what the blacklash will be. These are the kind of cases that rile up the nastier side of the right wing. Examples from the comments of One News Now: Although I do not live in Idaho, I think it is terrible that the taxpayers will have to pay for this therapy. It is bad enough that the taxpayer have to pay for room and board for the prisoners, but now for hormone therapy!!! Get REAL.. Most health insurance companies dont even cover all REAL illnesses, but now the taxpayers do. ONN It’s a shame that certain poorly performing activist judges can’t be dealt with like
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Community significance
“Taking The Good With The Bad” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to healthcare and medicine, while also engaging clinical and medical analysis. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “Taking The Good With The Bad” provides dated evidence of how healthcare and medicine was being argued in relation to clinical and medical analysis. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to healthcare and medicine and clinical and medical analysis, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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- 1Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
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This article appeared 6 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
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Taking The Good With The Bad... According to KTVB.com, Idaho Inmate Jennifer Spencer has won a small battle in the fight to get hormone replacement therapy in prison. While this is definitely a win for humane treatment of prisoners and for transsexuals that are incarcerated…
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