Author Archives: impact ethics
Expanding Health Literacy to Promote Trust
Vanita Fernandes suggests that the promotion of trust in scientific institutions and governing bodies should be an expanded aim of health literacy.
Non-Directive Prenatal Counseling: A Myth Under the Shroud of Ableism
Stephanie H. Meredith details the findings from a study on the impact of bias on the provision of prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
What is “Pathologization”? Part II. Disorder and Difference
Rashad Rehman and Darius J. Bägli draw on the example of congenital adrenal hyperplasia in order to outline appropriate uses of the term “disorder” versus “difference” of sexual development.
What is “Pathologization”? Part I
Rashad Rehman delineates what pathologization means, drawing upon the example of differences and disorders of sexual development.
Public Health’s Post-Pandemic Relationship with Coercion
Maxwell J. Smith outlines four areas of ethical inquiry about the use of coercion in public health that we should consider in the post-pandemic era.
