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The Fallen Children: has the Christian narrative failed foster care?
By: Kate Smoot Image via http://thegentreport.blogspot.com/2012/10/juvenile-delinquency-age-of-majority.html Justice is notoriously difficult to get right. Often, injustice prevails through simple...
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Compassion Across Borders: International Disparities in the Vocation of...
The following essay was the first-prize winner of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education’s 2014 Dr. Kuo York and M. Noelle Chynn Undergraduate Prize in Ethics, an essay competition to...
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Reducing Health Disparities and Enhancing the Responsible Conduct of Research...
Photo via Juvenile Justice Blog There has been a recent increase in public attention to health disparities in the incidence and treatment of suicide, substance abuse and sexual health risks among...
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Dr. Celia B. Fisher appears on the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC to...
On Saturday, October 18, Fordham Center for Ethics Education Director Dr. Celia B. Fisher appeared as a guest on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss mounting discrimination towards West African...
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Dr. Elizabeth Yuko appointed to international bioethics advisory board
Fordham University Center for Ethics Education bioethicist Dr. Elizabeth Yuko has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), an independent, non-profit organization...
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American College of Physicians Calls for End to Healthcare Disparities Faced...
Photo courtesy HRC Blog Originally published May 12, 2015 on HRC Blog by Alison Gill, Senior Legislative Counsel Today, the American College of Physicians called for action to address the entrenched...
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Fit to a “T”: Addressing the Unique Needs of Transgender Students
On Monday, August 3, several organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, the National Education Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union released “Schools in Transition: A Guide...
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Predatory Publishers: a $75 million-a-year business that can exacerbate...
Via freedigitalphotos.net A longitudinal study published yesterday indicates that predatory publishing is big business, bringing in $75 million in 2014 alone by publishing nearly half a million...
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NIH’s New Definition of “Children” Finally Gets it Right: A Welcome Change...
By Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. Under current federal research regulations, a “child” is defined as an individual younger than 21 years of age – a policy that has produced inequities in health research for...
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In Good Conscience: Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism, Violence, and...
Pervasive fears sparked by acts of terror, violent crime and resource scarcity test our values and raise critical questions about how enduring our support for human rights may be. When does the right...
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Transplant Tourism, A New Kind of Trade: Ethics of Kidney Transplants,...
Image via freedigitalphotos.net STUDENT VOICES | 2015 CHYNN PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION By: Christina Sailer One of the great miracles of modern medicine is the ability to save a dying patient through...
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Best intentions, worst outcomes: Ethical and legal challenges for...
Image via Central America hosts a thriving sex work industry that is a key source and transit region for sex trafficking and undocumented migrants engaged in sex work. Sex workers – particularly those...
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RETI Fellow Examines Intersectional Stigma for HIV-Positive African American...
Dr. Faith Fletcher, University of Illinois at Chicago While bearing the disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDs in the US, African American women also face multi-level stigma at social, community and...
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Will Research on 10,000 New Yorkers Fuel Future Racial Health Inequality?
Image via Flickr By Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. A 20-year, multi-million dollar study of more than 10,000 New Yorkers scheduled to begin next year claims that it will enable the development of theories,...
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Fordham RETI Fellow Addresses Stigma for HIV-Positive Gay and Bisexual Men
Dr. Jonathon Rendina, Hunter College, CUNY The minority stress theory suggests that health disparities experienced by gay and bisexual men (GBM) and other sexual minorities can be explained in terms of...
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Medical Training for Transgender Patients Needs to Include Sensitivity to...
Image via The recently published article on doctor’s lack of expertise in treating transgender patients in The Guardian is an important step forward in highlighting current disparities in healthcare...
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Fordham’s Dr. Elizabeth Yuko Address Ethics of Web Self-Diagnoses
Image via Millions of people use websites like WebMD every day to gain insight on a range of medical issues from cancer to mental health. This practice, or “cyberchondria,” is a new digital phenomenon...
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Ethics & Society Newsfeed: October 14, 2016
Image via Health Care and Bioethics DNA database highlights need for new medical privacy protections Creation of a national repository of genetic information is seen by some as crucial to reducing...
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Fordham Study Addresses Health Care of Bisexual Adolescent Girls
Image via For bisexual female adolescents, proper sexual healthcare is difficult to obtain due to healthcare providers’ judgmental attitudes and assumptions of patient heterosexuality, and lack of...
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The National Transgender Study is a Start – But More is Needed to Protect the...
Image via Ted Eytan On Thursday, December 9th, the largest survey of transgender people ever conducted was published by The National Center for Transgender Equality. The anonymous online survey had...
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