UNC School of Medicine’s Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein co-wrote an opinion piece on CNN.com with Senator Elizabeth Warren and Kathryn Nowotny, a sociologist at the University of Miami. Brinkley-Rubinstein and Nowotny are co-founders of the COVID Prison Project. For access to article click here
Rebecca Walker, PhD, campus profile in Carolina Alumni Review (pp. 26-27) “Ethics at the Forefront”. https://alumni.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/carolinaalumnireview20201112-dl.pdf
Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations reviews the available evidence and identifies future research needs related to the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex populations across the life course. This report focuses on eight domains of well-being; the effects of various laws and the legal system on SGD populations; the effects of various … Read more
NEJM Interview with Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on health reform and the 2020 elections. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. https://www.nejm.org/action/showMediaPlayer?doi=10.1056%2FNEJMdo005872&aid=10.1056%2FNEJMp2028380&area=
Can the Elections End the Health Reform Stalemate? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2028380?query=TOC
Tonia Poteat, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine, talk on “Black Trans Lives Matter: Understanding and Addressing Embodied Inequalities” is now available on the Carolina Population Center YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th04QgkslhE
Jonathan Oberlander, Professor and Chair of Social Medicine, and Professor of Health Policy & Management, was interviewed by the BBC program Witness History about the history of health care reform in the United States. Oberlander discussed the defeat of President Harry Truman’s national health insurance plan in the 1940s, the political obstacles to reform, and … Read more
Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches against their Soviet and Western counterparts. As explored in Peripheral Nerve, these and accompanying accounts problematize existing understandings of how the Cold War unfolded in Latin America generally … Read more
Terrence Holt publishes in Literary Hub, With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real? We know next to nothing. That’s how we feel. SARS-CoV-19, or “the novel coronavirus,” the pathogen responsible for this pandemic, is a strikingly unusual beast, capable of wreaking a bewildering variety of harms on the human body, ten … Read more
Can Pharmaceutical Testing Ever Be Ethical Under Capitalism? https://www.wunc.org/post/can-pharmaceutical-testing-ever-be-ethical-under-capitalism
