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Into the Unknown: An Ethicist Reflects on COVID-19

Marika Warren compares her expectations going into the pandemic with the actual ethical challenges that arose.

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.

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.