Subject: Gender Disparities

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

Art, Cultural, Ethics, Gender Disparities, Politics

Yes, Virginia, Ethics Does Recognize Humor

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A Facebook connection, we can call them Virginia, recently posted an image of a metal ring with ...

February 6, 2020

Environmental Ethics, Gender Disparities, Genetics, Global Ethics, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, In Memoriam, Justice, Neuroethics, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Privacy, Professionalism, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics, Science, Social Justice, Technology

Top Ten Bioethics Stories of 2019

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. and Keisha Ray, Ph.D. The end of the year usually brings a media blitz of top ten lists for the ...

December 29, 2019

Education, Ethics, Gender Disparities, Health Disparities, Justice, Public Health, Research Ethics

Medical Photos, CPR Dolls, and Car Crash Dummies: When Women Aren’t Represented in Researc...

by Keisha Ray, Ph.D.   In May a twitter user posted a picture depicting the muscular system of a female that includ...

July 22, 2019

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