Subject: Gender Disparities

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...

August 4, 2023

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...

July 6, 2023

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...

July 3, 2023

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 ...

June 3, 2023

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...

October 17, 2022

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 ...

August 3, 2022

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...

March 28, 2022

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 ...

August 2, 2021

Gender Disparities, Health Disparities, Politics, Public Health, Race

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

Gender Disparities, Informed Consent, Justice, Professionalism, Reproductive Ethics, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations

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

Gender Disparities, Professional Ethics, Science, Social Justice

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

Gender Disparities, Informed Consent, Media, Politics, Privacy, Social Media

#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

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