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Male Sexual Abuse Statistics

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Common Reactions to Sexual Assault

Document from Mount Sinai SAVI Program.

Medical Care in Palestine

Part of the HRSJ Nexus class session on MSF in Palestine

Disability Justice

Materials for the Disability Justice week in the Health, Human Rights, and Advocacy course run by the Mount Sinai Human Rights and Social Justice Program

Article: "Estimated Prevalence of US Physicians With Disabilities"

[For HRSJ Nexus Students]

Consider the factors that keep disabled people out of medicine and how this might reproduce ableist constructions of patients and pathology.

Article: "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time" Ellen Samuels

For HRSJ Nexus course week on disability activism.

Consider the ways medicine, and medical education, insist upon linear time.

Fatphobia

Materials for the week on fatphobia in the Health, Human Rights, and Advocacy course run by the Mount Sinai Human Rights and Social Justice Program

How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health

Study analyzing the ways stigma serves as a health stressor.

[Optional reading for HHRA students]

Racism in Medicine

Materials for the Racism and Medicine week in the Health, Human Rights, and Advocacy course run by the Mount Sinai Human Rights and Social Justice Program

Historic redlining, structural racism, and firearm violence: A structural equation modeling approach

A piece outlining the connection between racist redlining housing practices and gun violence.

[Optional reading for HHRA students.]