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.

Dr Rosa Lee joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Medical School Admissions Drive Health Care Workforce Diversity?”

From clinical, ethical, and public health standpoints, diversification is foundational to just responses to the health needs of a pluralistic nation.

There are fewer Black men in US medical schools today than in 1970, although their contributions are key to building medicine’s capacity to equitably promote healing.

Insurers’ decisions about which services to cover are often based on economic models that are seemingly objective but neglect factors affecting people who are economically disadvantaged.

Novel interventions that are effective and safe but costly suggest the importance of questions about value, accessibility, and affordability.

Modeling how technology assessment fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks can broaden the range of options for improving health equity.

Invisibility of racial inequity and gender inclusion in clinical research means key features of disease etiology and symptom presentation are unaccounted for.

Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability.

This article addresses intergenerational trauma transmission, focusing on Japanese American and Southeast Asian American communities.