Category Inclusivity

Should Practicing Healthcare Ethicists be Advocates?

Angel Petropanagos and Andria Bianchi highlight the lack of agreement about what “advocacy” means in healthcare and suggest that a narrowly defined advocacy role is necessary for the work of practicing healthcare ethicists.

Intersex Awareness Day: Combating Interphobia

Celeste E. Orr shows how queerphobia, ableism, and racism have sustained systemic discrimination against intersex individuals.

Solidarity, social dignity and Ontario’s Bill 7 (Part 2)

Monique Lanoix opposes Ontario’s legislation allowing transfer patients to long-term care without their consent because the legislation violates human rights, social dignity, and solidarity.

Solidarity, social dignity & Ontario’s Bill 7 (Part 1)

Monique Lanoix suggests that Bill 7 will harm people who are forced to move to a long-term care home that is not their choice.

You Might Have an Extra Chromosome

Chris Kaposy considers the implications of a study showing that having an extra chromosome is much more common than previously thought.