Opinion: "I’m a Doctor at the ‘Epicenter of the Epicenter’"
Dr. Ben McVane writes about working in Elmhurst during COVID.
The Irrelevance of Data to the Ethics of Intersex Surgery
For HRSJ week on intersex justice.
Male Sexual Abuse Statistics
Data supplied by 1in6
Common Reactions to Sexual Assault
Document from Mount Sinai SAVI 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.
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]
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]
Ben McVane's article on PTSD among asylum seekers