Of Beauchamp and Childress’ four principles of medical ethics—autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice—autonomy is often given the most priority. However, when it comes to receiving prenatal care, women face a ...

Due to a personal experience with chronic illness as a child and a passion for these children and their families, this thesis deals with effective and ineffective coping mechanisms of parents and siblings of a child with ...

Environmental and human health implications of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), particularly xenoestrogens, have received extensive study. Multiple in vitro and in vivo techniques have been developed to assess ...

Prenatal stress is known to affect a variety of measures of stress in mature offspring, including corticosterone. The purpose of this experiment is to examine the effects of unpredictable, chronic prenatal stress on serum ...

Molière’s The Learned Ladies is a comedy written and translated in verse, satirizing academic pretension and education. Baylor University Theatre’s production set The Learned Ladies in the 1950’s in the personal library ...

For my honors thesis, I wrote a fantasy novel that reimagines the era of Nazi Germany and explores issues of morality and prejudice alongside the themes of bravery, trust, and loyalty. Drawing from fantasy and dystopian ...

Biofilms play a major role in the development of drug-resistant, persistent bacterial infections. D-amino acids have been proposed as biofilm inhibitors that prevent biofilm formation by incorporating into the peptidoglycan. ...

A relatively recent addition to the arsenal of potential treatments for cancer involves the use of vascular disrupting agents (VDAs). Small-molecule VDAs target the blood supply of a tumor, starving it of nutrients and ...

The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy was not expected either by those inside Catholic politics or by non-Catholic observers. Because of his former anonymity in the English-speaking world, there exists a ...

L’Arche communities are Christian, faith-based communities where people with and without disabilities share life with one another. This international organization is a unique example of what it looks like to fully embrace ...