Size-based health and beauty ideals emanated from eugenic pseudoscientific postulates, and BMI continues to advance white supremacist embodiment norms.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(7):E535-539. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.535.
Zareen Zaidi, MD, PhD, Daniele Ölveczky, MD, MS, Nicole A. Perez, PhD, Paolo C. Martin, PhD, Andres Fernandez, MD, MSEd, Philicia Duncan, MD, and Hannah L. Anderson, MBA
This article canvasses ways to help trainees cultivate discernment and action in response to inequity.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E12-20. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.12.
Alexandre White, PhD and Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD
Teaching and learning patient advocacy in academic health centers requires critical engagement with social, political, historical, and cultural conceptions of racial difference.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E62-67. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.62.
Discussing quality improvement is routine in morbidity and mortality conferences, but little attention is paid to iatrogenic harms of structural racism in health professions education.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E748-752. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.748.
Eman Mubarak, MPH, Victoria Turner, MSW, Andrew G. Shuman, MD, Janice Firn, PhD, LMSW, and Daicia Price, PhD, LMSW
Antiracist approaches to decriminalizing acute exacerbations of mental illness require clinicians’ engagement in educating, training, and policy making.
AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E788-794. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.788.