August 4, 2016
—Jennifer Reich
Developing a Zika vaccine poses scientific and medical challenges as well as social and ethical issues with a twist because of what this vaccine will do and who it is aimed at.
April 27, 2016
—Jennifer A. Reich
Actor Robert DeNiro hand-picked the documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe to show at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, which he founded. The film, which has since been removed after widespread criticism, explores well-traveled terrain. The controversy over the its inclusion in the festival provides evidence that this conversation isn’t going anywhere for one simple reason: no one can prove a conspiracy doesn’t exist.
March 16, 2016
We write out of our shared concern over the current Zika virus epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in the hopes of making useful interventions. Because of Zika’s adverse effect on fetal development and potential link to Guillan-Barré syndrome, the virus poses serious concerns for public health.
March 4, 2016
There are reasons to see the rise of Zika not as another problem in need of a biomedical fix but as a sign of the limits of biomedical fixes.
February 5, 2016
—Joseph E. Davis [This piece originally appeared on Social Trends Institute.] Q: The title of your book is To Fix or to Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits… READ MORE
October 13, 2015
—Georgiann Davis If you’ve never heard of intersex, you aren’t alone. A few weeks ago a colleague and I were at a popular Las Vegas bar attending a drag show… READ MORE
July 23, 2015
—Dayna Bowen Matthew In the long-awaited King v. Burwell ruling last month, the Supreme Court took a major step forward in the fight to eradicate the racial and ethnic health… READ MORE
June 23, 2015
—Georgiann Davis When Shakespeare asked what’s in a name, I doubt he was thinking about intersex, disorders of sex development, or how terminology can shape lives and obstruct social change…. READ MORE