Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Care
The Cass Review: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Background The correct ap...
Subject: Gender Disparities
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Care
Courageous Providers, Principled Institutions, and Threats to Gender-Affirming Care
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. As of early March 2025, 6...
Cultural, Gender Disparities, Health Disparities, Social Justice
Microaggressions And Black Maternal Health
The United States has the highest rate of death in pregnancy and childbirth. According to a 2023 report, it is one ...
Gender Disparities, LGBTQ ethics, Philosophy & Ethics
True Trans Bioethics Centers Trans Experience
I am a transgender person researching transgender data justice in healthcare. I actively look for presentations surround...
Gender Disparities
The Retrievals, Episode 4: The Clinic
How could this huge system fail in such a way that this could happen? The fact that somebody was able to walk out with b...
Gender Disparities, Reproductive Ethics
The Retrievals, Episode 2: The Nurse
Welcome back to my analysis of The Retrievals – a new podcast about women’s pain from This American Life and The N...
Gender Disparities
The Retrievals, Episode 1: The Patients
This past weekend, my friend and fellow ethicist texted me a link to a new Serial podcast called The Retrievals.&nb...
Gender Disparities, Professionalism
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 ...
Gender Disparities, Professionalism
Sexist Language is No Joke
Though this post is about sexist language, I will start with a brief foray into linguistics and philosophy of language t...
Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
Why I’m Not Backing Down From Fighting for Our Right to Abortion
On the morning of Friday, June 24, 2022, over half of the population of the United States was stripped of a fundamental ...
Aging, Gender Disparities, In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Martha Holstein, PhD
Martha Holstein, PhD, aging studies scholar, feminist ethicist, mother, grandmother, colleague, and friend, died on Nove...
Conflict of Interest, Cultural, Decision making, Gender Disparities, Justice, Media, Psychiatric Ethics
#FreeBritney: Autonomy, Conservatorships, and Mental Health in America
By Jennifer L Young, PhD, Julia E H Brown, PhD, Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD In a small but significant change ...