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Prisons are Still Making COVID-19 Era Mistakes
Nov 07 2024
Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.
Housing discrimination is a public health disaster — and we need widespread social mobilization to fix it
Oct 21 2024
Residential racial segregation is both an economic injustice and a public health hazard. My new book contends that housing insecurity and its health consequences make up key components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order.
An interview with Paul Unschuld, translator of the "Ben Cao Gang Mu"
Oct 01 2024
The "Ben Cao Gang Mu" brings together ancient medicine, wisdom, and culture. German scholar and translator Paul U. Unschuld explains why it remains a crucial text — revealing the culture that underlies Chinese health care and politics.
Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
Jul 22 2024
By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information AgeThis post was originally published on The Conversation.The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has rece
Do You Want AI To Be Used in Your Healthcare?
Jul 09 2024
By Charles Binkley, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-MakingArtificial Intelligence (AI) is being introduced into every sector of the human experience, and healthcare is no exception.AI models were first used in radiology in the 1980s to aid radiologists in interpretin
Ethical AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare
Jun 11 2024
By Tyler Loftus, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-MakingEncoding Bioethics begins where all good healthcare stories begin: in the trenches of patient care. We have many professional roles in healthcare, but above all, we are surgeons. Providing the best patient care possi
On publishing Open-Access, with author Adrienne Strong
May 28 2024
What is it like to publish a book open-access with our Luminos program? Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania, discusses her award-winning book and her experience publis
A New Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy
Dec 19 2023
By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and MotherhoodWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, the court trivialized pregnancy and its impact on women’s lives. Nowhere in its opinion did the
Q&A with Emma Day, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar
Oct 27 2023
A conversation with FirstGen scholar Emma Day, author of "In Her Hands: Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States"
Q&A with Jessica P. Cerdeña, author of Pressing Onward
Apr 11 2023
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, en