Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.
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Read more: Citational Racism: How Leading Medical Journals Reproduce Segregation in American Medical Knowledge Citational Racism: How Leading Medical Journals Reproduce Segregation in American Medical Knowledge
The American Medical Association has failed to promote greater racial inclusion in its flagship publication, JAMA, despite an explicit pledge to do so.
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Read more: The Centrality of Social Movements in Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic The Centrality of Social Movements in Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our research shows that social movement activism is an integral part of service delivery for sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence.
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Read more: ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology ‘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.
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Read more: Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety Blurring the Line Between Public Health and Public Safety
Collective movement struggles during the twin crises of COVID-19 and the 2020 uprisings have helped blur the concepts of public safety and public health.
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Read more: Social Distancing, Social Protest, and the Social Constitution of a New Body of Law Social Distancing, Social Protest, and the Social Constitution of a New Body of Law
The emerging law of social distancing is vital to the future of public health. And social protests are playing an important role in these developments.
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Read more: Research and Regulation of Less-Lethal Projectiles Critically Needed Research and Regulation of Less-Lethal Projectiles Critically Needed
To protect human rights and civil liberties, we must better understand and regulate projectiles, which are dangerous and poorly studied weapons.
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Read more: How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities 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.
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Read more: Black Lives Matter To Human Research–Lessons From ‘On The Run’ 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 emotional level eclipsing my own reason or sense of right and wrong,” but the broader academy, which for too long…