We Asked For Racial Equity And They Gave Us Pig Hearts
by Keisha Ray, PhD
Here is a list of just some of the things that contribute to Black people’s inequitable access to proper health outcomes and health care:
Structural and Institutional racism
Interpersonal racism and race-related stressors
Healthcare providers’ biases
Health care policies
Lack of political power
Inequitable voting rights
Incarceration rates
Inequitable access to social determinants of health
Environmental racism
Birthing mortality
Police brutality
Poverty
Minimum wage policies
No universal health care, childcare, or parental leave
Inequitable student loa...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 20, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keisha Ray Tags: Featured Posts Race Technology Source Type: blogs
Pushing Back Against Covid Shame
Alyson Isaksson Capp, PhD
The dreaded pink line
bleeding across the test strip
next to the navy
Like a pregnancy testtwo lines means positive said the woman in royal blue scrubs,
unphased that we all had tested positive.
In awe that after almost two years
the thing I had most avoided
had happened,
I left my body.
As I looked down at myself
seeing Her, my body
defending HerSelf,
Her tiny T cells
recognizing the protein spikes,
remembering them by heart,
dismantling them
Later watching as She shouldered the headaches,
parched throat...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 7, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Featured Posts Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Gaps in ASBH ’s Cultural Inclusion Practices From The Perspective of a Student
Arisa Marshall
Most students of color know what it feels like to be the only non-white person in a classroom; the isolating responsibility of being the only person of color in these types of settings is too familiar to many of us. At this year’s American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) annual conference, a similar feeling of unease and responsibility set in with me. ASBH holds an annual conference in order to connect individuals across disciplines for the purpose of providing a platform for knowledge sharing in the fields of clinical and academic bioethics, as well as medical and health humanities.R...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 5, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Cultural Featured Posts Professionalism Source Type: blogs
Gaps in ASBH s Cultural Inclusion Practices From The Perspective of a Student
Arisa Marshall
Most students of color know what it feels like to be the only non-white person in a classroom; the isolating responsibility of being the only person of color in these types of settings is too familiar to many of us. At this years American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) annual conference, a similar feeling of unease and responsibility set in with me. ASBH holds an annual conference in order to connect individuals across disciplines for the purpose of providing a platform for knowledge sharing in the fields of clinical and academic bioethics, as well as medical and health humanities.…...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 5, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Cultural Featured Posts Professionalism Source Type: blogs
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: How Bioethics Can Learn from Organized Medicine
This editorial appears in the Jan 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics.
Elizabeth P. Clayborne and Marcella Nunez-Smith
As physicians, the supreme importance of health and its integral role in any individual’s pursuit of life, liberty and happiness is exhibited on a daily basis. It is abundantly clear that without health one cannot focus on any other facet of life and therefore health serves as the foundation on which wellness is grounded. It has also become clear that social determinants of health have a significant influence on health status and remain paradoxically the most ma...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 3, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Editorial-AJOB Ethics Featured Posts professional ethics Professionalism Source Type: blogs
The Need for Big Bioethics Research
This editorial appears in the Jan 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics.
Joel E.Pacyna andRichard R.Sharp
Empirical bioethics research has become an established field of study, with its own unique goals, vocabulary, and methods (Camporesi and Cavaliere 2021; Lee and McCarty 2016; Sugarman 2010), and with many universities and academic health centers hosting bioethics programs that support a variety of educational and translational research activities. Appropriately, the success of these programs has prompted closer scrutiny of their impact and relevance to the aims of medicine.… (Sou...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 3, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Editorial-AJOB Education Ethics Featured Posts professional ethics Source Type: blogs
The Need for “Big Bioethics” Research
This editorial appears in the Jan 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics.
Joel E. Pacyna and Richard R. Sharp
Empirical bioethics research has become an established field of study, with its own unique goals, vocabulary, and methods (Camporesi and Cavaliere 2021; Lee and McCarty 2016; Sugarman 2010), and with many universities and academic health centers hosting bioethics programs that support a variety of educational and translational research activities. Appropriately, the success of these programs has prompted closer scrutiny of their impact and relevance to the aims of medicine.… (...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 3, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Editorial-AJOB Education Ethics Featured Posts professional ethics Source Type: blogs
The Pandemic And The Atrophy of Primary Care
Steven H Miles, MD
For the first part of my medical career, I worked in intensive care units, hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes. Every morning I got a note telling me which of my patients were hospitalized. I was expected to see them. I made house calls to families in crisis (although this was being suppressed and so I did this off duty). When families or patients were frightened, usually by medical instability or the imminence of death, I wrote my phone number on my business card and gave it to them.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 3, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Steven Miles Tags: Clinical Ethics Featured Posts Source Type: blogs
Gimme a Boost?
Kyle Ferguson, PhD Arthur Caplan, PhD
The unfairness of “boosters” might seem self-evident: Millions of Americans are receiving third doses of COVID-19 vaccines before billions in poorer countries receive their firsts. Global vaccine distribution is starkly unequal, and now Americans are getting even more of a precious resource. The severe disparities in vaccine access and coverage around the world lead some people to feel that rich countries’ “booster” campaigns are unethical. But that feeling, no matter how good-natured and sincere, is mistaken.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 20, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Arthur Caplan Tags: Ethics Featured Posts Health Disparities Public Health Vaccines #covid19 #diaryofaplagueyear Source Type: blogs
The Limits of Our Social Lens on Abortion Laws (I ll take my sunglasses off)
by Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C
You might ask what sunbathing topless at the beach in Ocean City, Maryland and having an abortion have in common. Well, Ive done both, (more than once), and I have a personal stake in continued access to them bothas should all persons with breasts who dont identify as cisgendered men, and all persons capable of becoming pregnant.
Given the exceptional focus on the Supreme Courts recent hearing on S. B. 8, (the Texas bounty hunter abortion law banning abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat and granting enforcement to citizen vigilantes) you might have missed the c...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Abortion Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Source Type: blogs
The Limits of Our Social Lens on Abortion Laws (I ’ll take my sunglasses off)
by Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C
You might ask what sunbathing topless at the beach in Ocean City, Maryland and having an abortion have in common. Well, I’ve done both, (more than once), and I have a personal stake in continued access to them both—as should all persons with breasts who don’t identify as cisgendered men, and all persons capable of becoming pregnant.
Given the exceptional focus on the Supreme Court’s recent hearing on S. B. 8, (the Texas “bounty hunter” abortion law banning abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat and granting enforcement to citizen vigilantes) you might have ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Abortion Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Source Type: blogs
The Limits of Our Social Lens (I ’ll take my sunglasses off)
by Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, FCCM, HEC-C
You might ask what sunbathing topless at the beach in Ocean City, Maryland and having an abortion have in common. Well, I’ve done both, (more than once), and I have a personal stake in continued access to them both—as should all persons with breasts who don’t identify as cisgendered men, and all persons capable of becoming pregnant.
Given the exceptional focus on the Supreme Court’s recent hearing on S. B. 8, (the Texas “bounty hunter” abortion law banning abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat and granting enforcement to citizen vigilantes) you might have ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Abortion Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Source Type: blogs
AJOB December Issue Student Cover Art
by Delaney Maxwell
With the rise of multiomic research and databases, there is also an increased risk to the privacy of research participants and biological data. Beginning this illustration, I decided to take a neutral tone approach as the intent of the article was not to scare but to present the possibilities and propose a new framework for assessing these risks. My concept was similar to a where’s waldo page – identifying a specific person amongst a big crowd – but the viewer has found who they are looking for.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Art Featured Posts Journal Cover Art Privacy Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
From Ought to Is: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases
by Meghan C.Halley
Note: The following editorial was recently published in the American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 21,Issue 12(2021).
In this issue, Lynch and colleagues (2021) discuss lessons learned from the Operation Warp Speed response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Statesboth about what to do and what not to do for non-pandemic diseases. In outlining these lessons, the authors provide a cogent and well-reasoned set of recommendations for advocates and policymakers seeking to advance biomedical research in a particular disease area.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 2, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Disability Featured Posts Health Policy & Insurance Patient Advocacy rare diseases Source Type: blogs
From “Ought” to “Is:” Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases
by Meghan C. Halley
Note: The following editorial was recently published in the American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 21, Issue 12 (2021).
In this issue, Lynch and colleagues (2021) discuss lessons learned from the “Operation Warp Speed” response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States—both about what to do and what not to do for non-pandemic diseases. In outlining these lessons, the authors provide a cogent and well-reasoned set of recommendations for advocates and policymakers seeking to advance biomedical research in a particular disease area.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 2, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Disability Featured Posts Health Policy & Insurance Patient Advocacy rare diseases Source Type: blogs
