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: "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.]
Article: "How Structural Racism Works — Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities"
[Optional reading for HHRA students]
Introduction to Advocacy: Thinking with/in Mount Sinai
Materials for the introductory week of the Human Rights and Social Justice Program's Nexus course, "Health, Human Rights, and Advocacy"
[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.