This brief visual and narrative history explains why dentistry exists outside medicine, rather than as a specialty within it.

CHWs’ work underscores need for clinicians and organizations to respond to deeply entrenched, long-standing patterns of oppression in ways that draw upon lived experience.

“Contraception Options” considers the general social and cultural expectation and norm that women’s bodies should be the sites of contraception.

Wandy D. Hernandez-Gordon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why Community Health Workers’ Roles in Latinx Communities Are Essential.”

Healthist views about body shape and weight are oppressive and lead to pernicious harms, especially to members of vulnerable groups. 

Weight loss is not a safe, effective, or permanent method of health promotion, and pharmacotherapeutical approaches pose specific risks to adolescents. 

In the early 20th century, the United States, as an industrialized nation with more food than ever, began to grapple with obesity.

Trust is a social condition that positions science to beneficially contribute to democratic societies.

The question is whether the medi-spa is a consumer-driven, profit-motivated business that happens to fall under the purview of medical practice or a legitimate and integral part of the health care system? Does it fulfill consumers’ desires or relieve suffering and promote wellness?