Bioethics Forum Essay
El agua no es potabo: Immigration and Public Health Policy in Flint
The public health catastrophe known as the Flint water crisis is also a textbook case about the consequences of immigration policy, including the federal stalemate concerning reform and state-level policymaking,...Read “El agua no es potabo: Immigration and Public Health Policy in Flint”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants under the Trump Administration
Health care access is local; creating, financing, expanding, or restricting health care access for a low-income population involves local, state, and federal policies. During the Obama administration, health insurance for the...Read “Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants under the Trump Administration”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Undocumented Patients in the Local Safety-Net: Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Practice
The 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States live in all 50 states and rely on local safety-nets and state-level provisions for health care. Launched in 2011, The Hastings...Read “Undocumented Patients in the Local Safety-Net: Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Practice”
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What Happens When Undocumented Immigrants Are Seriously Ill?
How do state and local health care systems care for seriously ill undocumented immigrants? This question is the focus of a collection of articles in JAMA Internal Medicine. Nancy Berlinger,...Read “What Happens When Undocumented Immigrants Are Seriously Ill?”
Bioethics Forum Essay
New Homeland Security Rules and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
On February 21, the Department of Homeland Security released new policies prioritizing deportation of undocumented immigrants. Will this policy shift affect health care access for this population of 11 million?...Read “New Homeland Security Rules and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants”
Bioethics Forum Essay
How “America First” Undermines Our Health
People value their health. It allows them to pursue their aims and enjoy their lives, and it contributes to their well-being. But health is not only good for particular healthy...Hastings Center News
Association of Health Care Journalists Meeting Features Hastings Center Experts
The Hastings Center teamed up with the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) to create three sessions on gene editing for its annual meeting in Orlando on April 20. In...Read “Association of Health Care Journalists Meeting Features Hastings Center Experts”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Being a Good Doctor When Patients Fear Deportation: Lessons for Future Physicians
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine last March warned of the “chilling effect” of recent federal immigration policy changes on health care access for undocumented immigrants. The...Read “Being a Good Doctor When Patients Fear Deportation: Lessons for Future Physicians”
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Hastings Center Scholar: Migrants Need Social Citizenship
In an essay in Aeon magazine, Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger argues that migrants — who make up every seventh person in the world–need more than sanctuary cities. They...Read “Hastings Center Scholar: Migrants Need Social Citizenship”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Shocking the Conscience: Justice Department versus the Health of Immigrant Women and Children
In April, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it would criminally prosecute migrants who had been apprehended after crossing the U.S.-Mexico. border. An immediate consequence of this announcement, explained in...Read “Shocking the Conscience: Justice Department versus the Health of Immigrant Women and Children”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Migrants’ Lives, Immigration Policy, and Ethics Work
The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was a mother separated from her child by a state policy of terror. During the 1930s, she and other mothers would gather outside a Leningrad...Bioethics Forum Essay
What Are the Rules for Ethical Medication of Migrant Kids?
Reports that migrant children held by the Office of Refugee Resettlement are being drugged require an immediate and unambiguous response by the Trump administration. According to court filings, the drugs that...Read “What Are the Rules for Ethical Medication of Migrant Kids?”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Beyond Breaking News: Ways of Seeing Migrants and Their Children
Amid the volume of coverage and commentary on the politics of immigration and the consequences of crackdowns and criminalization, here is a selection of recent work – analysis, personal essay, fiction, mixed-media – that can spark the moral imagination.Read “Beyond Breaking News: Ways of Seeing Migrants and Their Children”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule
A long-anticipated policy change proposed by the Trump administration that would count the use of many federally-subsidized programs against immigrants currently eligible to use them threatens public health and would...Read “Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule”
Hastings Center News
New Project: Countering the Rising Threats to Immigrant Health
Immigrants and their families in the United States and migrants who seek asylum in this country face accelerating threats and harms to their health because of the Trump administration’s immigration priorities. A...Read “New Project: Countering the Rising Threats to Immigrant Health”
Hastings Center News
New York City Initiative to Cover the Uninsured Reflects Hastings Research, Recommendations
On May 7, New York City officials unveiled details of NYC Care, a new program in the nation’s largest public health system that aims to improve health care access for...Read “New York City Initiative to Cover the Uninsured Reflects Hastings Research, Recommendations”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Forced from Home: Evicting Immigrants from Public Housing Harms Children’s Health
The federal government's proposed rule to disqualify families from public housing if any member is undocumented will harm children, families, and cities.Read “Forced from Home: Evicting Immigrants from Public Housing Harms Children’s Health”
Bioethics Forum Essay
From Outcry to Solidarity with Migrants: What Is the Good We Can Do?
Another June. Another public outcry about cruelty as policy harming migrants in United States custody. This summer, the photo of a drowned family, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Valeria, of El Salvador, shocks the conscience. Reporters are documenting the inhumane conditions in a Border Patrol facility where hundreds of children have been held. How should our field respond?Read “From Outcry to Solidarity with Migrants: What Is the Good We Can Do?”
Bioethics Forum Essay
The Public Charge Rule Is a Eugenic Policy
Bioethics Forum Essay
Immigrants, Health Inequities, and Social Citizenship in Covid-19 Response and Recovery
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Bioethics Forum Essay
“If the virus doesn’t kill us, the stress and anxiety will.” Immigrants during Covid
Growing isolation, financial challenges and disease burden during the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to worsen the mental health needs of the entire U.S. population. These challenges are heightened among immigrants with untreated chronic mental health conditions as they experience added psychological distress owing to harsh immigration policies and worsening structural barriers to health during the pandemic.Read ““If the virus doesn’t kill us, the stress and anxiety will.” Immigrants during Covid”
Bioethics Forum Essay
Three Lessons from Leah
Leah Zallman's meticulous research helps us all to tell the story of what immigrants give to this nation and what they should receive from this nation.
