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102Victims of eugenic sterilisation in Utah: cohort demographics and estimate of living survivorsThe Lancet Regional Health–Americas. 2023.Eugenicists at the beginning of the twentieth century feared that the "unfit" were outbreeding the "fit" and promoted interventions like sterilisation as a solution to the perceived problem. Over 60,000 people were sterilised across the United States, victims of eugenic programs implemented in 32 states. Utah had a particularly aggressive eugenic sterilisation program, hailed by eugenicists for sterilising such a large proportion of its population, and lasting well into the 1970s. The goal of th…Read more
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17Understanding and Correcting Sex Disparity in Cardiovascular Disease Research: Ethical and Practical SolutionsInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 14 (2): 81-96. 2021.Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death of women in the United States, yet cardiovascular research is disproportionately conducted using male human subjects and male animal models. This article deploys Katrina Hutchison’s (2019) analysis of gender disparity in clinical trials as a moral aggregation problem to address the problem of underrepresentation of women in cardiovascular research. I identify cost concerns, convenience, pregnancy, and negligence as potential reasons for the un…Read more
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12Donchin and Holmes Emerging Scholar Prize Paper Understanding and Correcting Sex Disparity in Cardiovascular Disease Research: Ethical and Practical SolutionsInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 14 (2): 81-96. 2021.Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death of women in the United States, yet cardiovascular research is disproportionately conducted using male human subjects and male animal models. This article deploys Katrina Hutchison’s (2019) analysis of gender disparity in clinical trials as a moral aggregation problem to address the problem of underrepresentation of women in cardiovascular research. I identify cost concerns, convenience, pregnancy, and negligence as potential reasons for the un…Read more
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University of Texas at San AntonioPost-doctoral Fellow
APA Western Division
Areas of Specialization
Biomedical Ethics |
Feminist Philosophy |
Epistemology |
Medical Ethics |
Areas of Interest
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Biology |
Medical Ethics |