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Coercive Sterilization Isn’t A Matter of the Past: A Call to Action for Medical Providers...
Reproductive coercion is alive and well in the United States, violently robbing women of their ability to build f...
September 27, 2023
Honoring Wishes, Aggressive Sales Pitches, And Evaluating The Dying Process
My mother died last week. She spent two weeks in an assisted living facility in Florida and then I brought her home. Thi...
September 13, 2023
Psychedelic Ethics in a World “Warring With Drugs”
Along with apple pie, colonialism, and imperialism, one of America’s best-known characteristics known around the globe i...
September 11, 2023
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?
The following editorial can be found in the September issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Shavelson et al. r...
September 5, 2023
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The ACOG Slap: In a culture that protects predators, someone was bound to snap
Content warning: This post addresses sexual assault, sexual harassment, and violence. On Saturday, May 20, 2023, at the ...
June 3, 2023
I Shouldn’t Have to be a Supercrip: Promoting Anti-Ableism and Disability Justice for Bioe...
Becoming a successful bioethics scholar is no easy feat, even for a supercrip like me. I am a supercrip, a person with d...
May 1, 2023
We Asked For Racial Equity And They Gave Us Pig Hearts
by Keisha Ray, PhD Here is a list of just some of the things that contribute to Black people’s inequitable access to pro...
January 20, 2022
Black Bioethics and How the Failures of the Profession Paved the Way for Its Existence
Keisha Ray, Ph.D. Recently the term Black Bioethics has been having its moment. With the world’s recently increased atte...
August 6, 2020
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Coercive Sterilization Isn’t A Matter of the Past: A Call to Action for Medical Providers...
Reproductive coercion is alive and well in the United States, violently robbing women of their ability to build f...
September 27, 2023
Honoring Wishes, Aggressive Sales Pitches, And Evaluating The Dying Process
My mother died last week. She spent two weeks in an assisted living facility in Florida and then I brought her home. Thi...
September 13, 2023
To ‘Shroom or not to ‘Shroom?: Lopsided Research And Policy Within Psychedelics Increases ...
Whether due to industry pressure, media hype, or a sense of optimism over a handful of recent clinical trials, the FDA m...
August 12, 2023
Doctoring Dobbs: On the Art and Ethics of Erasing Abortion Law
It has been one year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling ended federally protected a...
June 30, 2023