Category Patient-Oriented Research

Why Medical Students Should Learn the History of Unit 731

Serena Yu argues that incorporating culturally and geographically diverse examples of medical atrocities into medical school curriculum helps train students to be ethically vigilant in ways that are respectful of forgotten histories.

Canada is Not Ready to Criminalize Intersex Pediatric Surgery  

Rashad Rehman argues that a moratorium against intersex pediatric surgery would be harmful.

Praise be the Subject: Altruism and Therapeutic Misconception

Palmer Montalbano recommends using public policy that reinforces altruism as a solution to the problem that truly informing patients about the risks of participation in cancer research trials would hinder recruitment.

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.