Abortion: Welcome to the Sixties
In November 1964, 9 years before the right to an abortion was codified by Roe v. Wade, I was an intern in a busy, urban ...
May 6, 2022
Editorial: Disability, Aging, and the Importance of Recognizing Social Supports in Medical...
By Kevin Mintz, PhD and David Magnus, PhD Note: The following editorial was recently published in the American Journal o...
October 29, 2021
Vaccinating the World: The Problem with Drop-in-the-Bucket Thinking
By Govind Persad, JD, PhD The United States, after wasting over 15 million doses since March and with a stockp...
October 6, 2021
Beyond the Belmont Report
by Wamia Siddiqui, BS and Richard R. Sharp, PhD The following blog is an editorial found from the Am...
September 27, 2021
Why should we care about social and behavioral genomics?
By Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD, Lucas J. Matthews, PhD, Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD Only a couple of decades ago, extensive ...
September 23, 2021
Hey Siri, How Do I Say “Appendicitis” in Hungarian?
by Vincent LaBarca, DNP, NP-C Back in 2017, before Americans were considered a biohazard due to the country’s poor...
September 20, 2021
Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic
By George J. Annas and Sondra S. Crosby This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics...
July 30, 2021
Multiracial Healthcare: What About Us?
By Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD and Jennifer L. Young, PhD June 12 was Loving Day – a celebration of the 1...
June 17, 2021
COVID-19 Proved That Americans With Disabilities Need Biden’s Infrastructure Plan. Lawmak...
By Clayton Jones, LCDR, CHC, USN, Kevin Mintz, PhD, Andrew Peterson, PhD America is winning the battle against COVI...
June 16, 2021
Interrupting the Medical Ableism Feedback Loop
by Joseph Stramondo, PhD The COVID-19 pandemic reveals systemic health inequities in ways that are hard to ignore. ...
May 19, 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
Umbilical Hernias: Systemic Racism, Dogma, And Pediatric Surgery
by Stephanie Preston, MD In the health professions, we have all been taught that some of the most common, chronic, and d...
April 13, 2021