On queries to write the #bioethics piece on race and #COVID. I think my colleagues are doing a fabulous job of keeping the #HealthInequalities issues central. They are still active scholars where pub counts matter. So read their work. Via twitter brevity, this is what to notice:

1 Which voices matter? Has the researcher engaged issues of health inequalities in previous research? Does that research interrogate physician bias or begin and end w/pt medical profiles?

2 A patient's presentation might begin an analysis; but without looking at structural racism (food deserts, differential treatment, unequal access) medical profiles are themselves slender indicators of patient "stories." w/o structural analysis, "blame the patient" is foreground

3 #bioethics by itself is not neutral. A cultural #bioethics accnts for the complexity of how identities matter (gender, sexuality, race) to treatment and how history of identity-based practice informs/guides contemporary treatment - (the arg of my #PrivateBodies)

4 As reports circulate re: #coronavirus' disparate impact on African Americans, any reporting that begins/and ends w/the medical presentations of health profiles is not only superficial, but frankly incorrect and threatens to extend presumptions regarding #HealthDisparities .

5 Finally, on death & dying, it's painful the ways in which #PassedOn is still a viable (I get it) ref. But when we speak of #anticipatorygrief, understand that blk communities' cross-generational & quotidian exp w/death mean we've already a storied space for #coronavirus. Ask us