Shared decision making is complex with patients who are adolescents, whose relational autonomy is still emerging.

Limited understanding of disease etiology often leads to resistance, which can result in low vaccine uptake.

Eliminating cervical cancer inequality means transmen need regular, unimpeded access to regular Pap screening.

Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

Storytelling can confer some protection from stigma to individual women in Turkish and Afghan societies.

Intergenerational trauma has deep roots, which require clinicians to understand historical and cultural context when working with vulnerable children.

How society and medicine discussed and responded to child abuse changed dramatically in 1962. Since that time, the problem’s fuller scope has been revealed.

This drawing considers the importance of understanding history’s role in contextualizing many patients’ present-day health care experiences.