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...
August 4, 2023
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...
July 6, 2023
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...
July 3, 2023
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
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...
October 17, 2022
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 ...
August 3, 2022
In Memoriam: Martha Holstein, PhD
Martha Holstein, PhD, aging studies scholar, feminist ethicist, mother, grandmother, colleague, and friend, died on Nove...
March 28, 2022
#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 ...
August 2, 2021
Overturning National Eviction Bans is Institutionalized Racism and Sexism
by Keisha Ray, PhD One of the social determinants of health is housing. Although in my work I discuss&nbs...
May 5, 2021
Doctor Performs Hysterectomies on Immigrant Detainees
by Craig Klugman In a startling whistleblower report, Dawn Looten who is a licensed nurse practitioner at the Irwin Coun...
September 17, 2020
Considering Systemic Discrimination in Tenure
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week I was speaking with a friend who works at another university and we were discussing on...
August 11, 2020
#MedBikini: A Lesson in Irony and the Pitfalls of Policing Professionalism
by Andrew Helmers, MDCM, MHSc (Bioethics), MSc, FRCPC The Journal of Vascular Surgery (and Irony) published a rather odd...
July 27, 2020