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Supporting Patients and Students Who Are Immigrants: What to Do and Why Most Bioethicists Won’t Do It

We have well-developed playbooks on what health care providers and institutions should do immediately to welcome immigrant patients and make their facilities as safe as possible for them.
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Overcoming Covid Vaccine Hesitancy Among Minnesota’s Somali Muslims

When Covid-19 vaccines first became available last year, Somali Muslims in Minnesota--the largest Somali Muslim population in North America-- were fearful and, consequently, their vaccination rate was low and their Covid-19 rate was high. But health professionals and community representatives worked together to understand and overcome their vaccine hesitancy.
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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.
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Black Bioethics and How the Failures of the Profession Paved the Way for Its Existence

In many ways, black bioethics can be explained very simply as the exploration and interrogation of any event, ideal, technological advancement, person, or institution that directly or indirectly affects the health or well-being of black (loosely defined) individuals or the black population. Black bioethics is taking what we do in bioethics and specifically applying it to black people. But in other ways black bioethics is more than this; it is a rebellion against bioethics.
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“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.
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Immigrant DNA Collection: Fighting Crime or Moral Panic

Last week, the Trump Administration proposed a new rule that would “require DNA-sample collection from individuals who are arrested, facing charges, or convicted, and from non-United States persons who are detained under the authority of the United States.” Collecting DNA of people detained under the Department of Homeland Security is not permitted under U.S. law. The proposed rule aims to change that.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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