Author

Michele Goodwin

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, is the John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the Assistant Faculty Director of Online Education, helping to lead the university’s first online master’s degree, the Master of Health Care Innovation, and other online offerings.
  • Blog Symposia

    Black Women Can’t Breathe

    Racism in health care, expressed through implicit and explicit biases, is the ultimate form of suffocation.

    Black Women Can’t Breathe

    Woman holding sign that reads "I can't breathe."
  • Events

    Women, Girls, and Mass Incarceration: A Hidden Problem

    Ultimately, we must all recognize responsibility to overhaul our criminal justice system and the policies that drive it. The Drug War is a failed effort and the collateral consequences reach a level of absurdity, including…

    Women, Girls, and Mass Incarceration: A Hidden Problem

  • Health Law Policy

    Black Lives Matter To Human Research–Lessons From ‘On The Run’

    The problem here is not simply one for Goffman, who admitted in hindsight, “I’m glad that I learned what it feels like to want a man to die…to feel it in my bones, at an…

    Black Lives Matter To Human Research–Lessons From ‘On The Run’

  • Clinical Research

    Father Time… Do Men Also Have Reproductive Clocks?

    By Michele Goodwin For centuries, researchers have studied multiple aspects of women’s reproduction.  Research tells us when women are more likely to become pregnant, when infertility kicks in, and even offers significant insights into the…

    Father Time… Do Men Also Have Reproductive Clocks?

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Ebola and Privacy

    By Michele Goodwin As the nation braces for possibly more Ebola cases, civil liberties should be considered, including patient privacy.  As news media feature headline-grabbing stories about quarantines,  let’s think about the laws governing privacy…

    Ebola and Privacy

  • Conscience

    Ebola and Cognitive Bias

    By Michele Goodwin In the wake of another health care worker contracting Ebola, alarm bells are ringing. Last week, President Obama abruptly cancelled a campaign stop to Rhode Island to hold press conferences where he…

    Ebola and Cognitive Bias