Susanna Smith

Freelance Writer

Susanna Smith is a freelance writer, editor, blogger, and activist. She writes on global health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, mobile health and technology, and ethics. Follow her on Twitter @susannajsmith.

Posts by Susanna Smith
Bioethics Forum Essay

Syria’s War Against Medicine

On Monday, the Global Post published Inside Syria: One Hospital’s Story, which offers a glimpse into an emergency room in Aleppo, Syria, flooded with wounded Syrians. “I didn’t see this amount of blood...
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Bioethics Forum Essay

Medicine as a Weapon in Syria and Beyond

A recent editorial in The Lancet issued a dire warning to the international medical community: medicine is a weapon of war in Syria. It is just the latest in a series of...
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Bioethics Forum Essay

Health Workers as Pawns of Warfare

Last week, NPR reported a major humanitarian group’s decision to stop treating patients from detention centers in Misrata, Libya. According tothe report,“torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought...
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