Author

Aziza Ahmed

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology

    Our ability to breathe is shaped by the laws and politics that govern the use of technologies, and that validate racialized assumptions about people.

    ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology

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  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities

    Scholarship on the social determinants of health is missing an account of how communities change the legal environments that produce poor health outcomes.

    How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities

    Man holds up a sign at the Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC 6/6/2020.
  • Genetics & Genomics

    Ethical Concerns of DNA Databases used for Crime Control

    Though the opportunities for crime-solving by utilizing DNA database searches may be vast, new technologies and innovative uses of them do not occur in a vacuum. Instead, novel uses of technology demand consideration of a…

    Ethical Concerns of DNA Databases used for Crime Control

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  • Bioethics

    Reproductive Health Under Assault

    By Aziza Ahmed  This post appears on the Health Affairs Blog in a series stemming from the Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Monday, January 23, 2017. American political, social, and religious history…

    Reproductive Health Under Assault