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Ethics Talk: Immunity Status, Social Privilege, and the Novel Coronavirus

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, talks with Kathryn Olivarius, PhD, about how yellow fever epidemics during the antebellum South provide a historical lens to examine power asymmetries and health inequities in the COVID-19 era.

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Kathryn Olivarius, PhD is an assistant professor of history at Stanford University.

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Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Patient Care Professionalism

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Medicine and Society
Dec 2020

Bringing Dying Out of the Hospital’s Closet

Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN, MA
A patient’s transition from “living” to “dying” is not socially marked in the same way death is marked, and this is both clinically and ethically relevant.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1062-1066. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1062.