Category Social Justice
Adolescent Consent: Culturally Relative or Universal?
Julien Brisson supports removing age-based restrictions on adolescent healthcare consent, advocating for decisions to be made on the adolescent’s capacity to understand the treatment.
Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Medical Fascism, & the Role of Bioethics
Florence Ashley connects conservative attacks against gender-affirming care to wider fascist movements determined to eliminate marginalized groups
Vaccines Treating Cancer: Would Anti-Vaxxers Change their Minds?
Chris Kaposy wonders about the impact of mRNA vaccines that treat cancer on the anti-vaccine movement.
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.
Crimes against Humanity in Xinjiang and the Crisis in Forensic Genetics
Mark Munsterhjelm raises alarm about the complicity of researchers and suppliers in forensic genetics in the Chinese government’s repression of Indigenous peoples in Xinjiang.
