On this episode of Ethics Talk, Zahra H. Khan, Yoshiko Iwai, and Dr Sayantani DasGupta outline how “abolition medicine” can motivate critical responses to medicine’s expressions of hyper-punitive, deeply racialized exercises of state authority.
Aminta Kouyate joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Nhi Tran and Monica U. Hahn: “Why Professionalism Demands Abolition of Carceral Approaches to Patients’ Nonadherence Behaviors.”
Russyan Mark Mabeza joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Betial Asmerom, Dr Rupinder Legha, and Vanessa Nuñez: “An Abolitionist Approach to Antiracist Medical Education.”
Kristen N. Pallok and David A. Ansell’s “Should Clinicians Be Activists?” highlights how physician activists risk retaliation from “economically and socially” privileged physician leaders and organizational leadership who “have been trained to comply” with structural inequity.
AMA J Ethics. 2022; 24(7):E694-696. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.694.
Drs Jewel Mullen and David Henderson break down myths of “merit-based” admissions and explore how we should pursue diversity and inclusion as key educational and professional priorities in medicine.
Dr Matthew K. Wynia joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Robert Baker: “Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine”
