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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

In Massachusetts alone, as the new policy institute report details, thousands of medically stable individuals remain trapped in hospitals, nursing homes, and psychiatric institutions not because they require ongoing medical care but because they lack a legal guardian authorized to make decisions about their discharge and future care.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 4 In practice, thats proven difficulta systematic review of American healthcare data done in 2011 revealed high rates of re-identification, raising ethical concerns.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

There was an American hospital algorithm that was designed to better triage patients with respect to who needed the most medical attention, especially as regards sudden worsening of a condition.6 2 Because whats being reflected in that mirror doesnt look anything like us. 7 But thats just the tip of the iceberg.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

What follows is a regrettable event in medical research related to this topic. 14 Henrietta Lackss narrative highlights several ethical concerns, including informed consent, health data privacy, transparency/ communication with research participants, and the commercialization of data derived from individuals.

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Rethinking EMTALA: What Idaho’s Battle over Abortion Means for Reproductive Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

In the face of rising mortality rates, reproductive justice advocates have turned to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to help safeguard access to emergency abortions. However, the law’s authority is contested. Still, research shows that the United States is currently experiencing a maternal mortality crisis.

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COVID, Nursing Homes, and Death: A Conversation with Margaret Morganroth Gullette

NonProfit Quarterly

Medical ageism wasa matter of life and death.” It had just infiltrated the medical world. Medical ageism was going to be a matter of life and death. Medical ageism is crucial. There are stories about how medical professionals were supposed to refuse to take older people. You couldnt exclude women.

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Our Bodies, Our Data, Our Destinies: Native American Women Harnessing Technology for the Benefit of Our People

NonProfit Quarterly

In the 1960s and 1970s, health providers contracted by the Indian Health Servicethe entity created to provide tribally enrolled Native Americans with healthcare in exchange for the land from which we were forcibly removedused medical technologies to sterilize our women without their consent. Winston Thompson et al., 3 (2024): 574603.