"Adam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society, and it sets the bar high for all future books in the series." ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/resp...

Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships

Adam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethic…

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A sliver of good news: I'm honored to have been named Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor. My thanks to Georgetown for this recognition of excellence in research, teaching, and service!

It was a joy to work with such a dedicated team of medical educators at the Georgetown University Berkley School of Nursing on the paper: "Design and Implementation of an Innovation Health Equity Curriculum." Out now! #nursing #disability #healthequity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Issue 5 of The Journal of Philosophy of Disability (@jphildis.bsky.social) is out! Spread the word! #disability www.pdcnet.org/jpd/toc

Excited to visit the UK for the first time this week to give a talk at the University of Birmingham! (Feel free to DM me suggestions on what to do in Birmingham and London.)

We are excited Episode 5 of Bioethics Chats is out NOW! 👏 🎉 HC President @VarditRavitsky and Joel Michael Reynolds, associate professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University and School of Medicine discuss #disabilityethics https://bit.ly/4ovSf3r

It was a joy to discuss disability, bioethics, and why "research is a party" w/ @hastingscenter.bsky.social's President Vardit Ravitsky as part of their new Bioethics Chats series! #Bioethics #Disability #philsky #Science #Research

Bioethics Chats: Joel Michael Reynolds

Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, MA, is an associate professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University and School of Medicine and a

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It was such a delight for the Georgetown Disability Studies Program to host Prof. Doron Dorfman to talk about his award-winning paper, "Third-Party Accommodations." It sparked many fruitful conversations about the ADA and how it could be epanded! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It's wild to watch US academics uphold the politics of civility as the country dives headlong into fascism. #politics #fascism #academia

I am so excited to join the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice (MHHJ) this year as a faculty fellow to carry out research for my project, "Promoting Health Equity through a Networked Model of Disability." #disability #AI #healthcare #bioethics #medicine #publichealth

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THE ART OF FLOURISHING is out! Breaking into the top 15 ethics books on Amazon today, I am so honored to have worked w/ Erik Parens, Liz Bowen, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and our brilliant contributors to bring this conversation out into the world! #disability #ethics tinyurl.com/w8z4kuat

Honored to be giving a lecture followed by a workshop on my research at Universität Bonn in Frankfurt. It's an exciting opportunity to develop a line of inquiry that takes accessibility as the principle underwriting all human rights. #disability #accessibility #disabilityrights #humanrights

The faculty of the Disability Studies program at Georgetown University, which I direct, just released a statement on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s horrific, ignorant, and ableist comments about autism. #disability #Autism #neurodiversity #disabilityrights #HHS #media #journalists

If you haven't joined AAUP, now is the time!!

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all faculty and eligible university workers should pile into AAUP

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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If you'd like a distraction from all the horrors, consider checking out five masterclasses on inclusive philosophies organized by The Philosopher! My Philosophy of Disability Masterclass is on Friday, March 28th 2pmEDT/6pmUK. Registration details below. www.thephilosopher1923.org/groups-class...

Excited to see this book out in the world! Feminist Movements in Time and Space looks at mobilizations across Europe from the past decade. 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇵🇱🇸🇮🇪🇸🇹🇷 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #justpublished #genderstudies #feminism #academicsky

New paper day! "Impact of Physical Disability on Transplant Candidacy: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Transplant Professionals" is out in Disability and Health Journal. #disability #bioethics #healthdisparities philpapers.org/rec/MARIOP-9

Jessica Marengo, Joel Michael Reynolds, Liz Bowen, Christoph Nabzdyk & Mariah Tanious, Impact of Physical Disability on Transplant Candidacy: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Transplant Professionals -...

Background: While the solid organ transplant evaluation process is designed to function equitably, discriminatory practices remain, resulting in disparities in access for persons with disabilities. Ph...

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Grateful to all those who came out for my talk and book signing as part of USC's Visions and Voices series! Special thanks to Sabrina Derrington, the Keck School of Medicine’s Humanities, Ethics, Art, & Law Program, USC's Provost's Office, and the Center for Bioethics at Children's Hospital LA.

If you are concerned about the (current and potential) impacts of AI use in healthcare for disabled people, take a look at this piece I co-authored now out in Nature Medicine: "Health AI Poses Distinct Harms and Potential Benefits for Disabled People." #disability #medicine #AI #justice

Charles Binkley, Joel Michael Reynolds & Andrew Schuman, Health AI Poses Distinct Harms and Potential Benefits for Disabled People - PhilPapers

This piece in Nature Medicine notes the risks that incorporation of AI systems into health care poses to disabled patients and proposes ways to avoid them and instead create benefit.

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I'm excited that "Promises and Pitfalls of Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Polygenic Disorders (PGT-P): A Narrative Review" is out online-first in F&S Reviews. This comes from the 1st Conference on Polygenic Embryo Screening (Sep 2023).

Jaime Roura-Monllor, Zachary Walker, Joel Michael Reynolds, Greysha Rivera-Cruz, Avner Hershlag, Gheona Altarescu, Sigal Klipstein, Stacey Pereira, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, Shai Carmi, Todd Lencz & Ruth ...

Preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic disorders (PGT-P) has been commercially available since 2019. PGT-P makes use of polygenic risk scores for conditions which are multifactorial and are sig...

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#Disability Bluesky, go follow @jphildis.bsky.social, the first journal devoted to the field of philosophy of disability. The 4th issue just dropped (everything is open access), and it's a banger!

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The fourth issue of The Journal of Philosophy of Disability is available (open access) now! Check out the work of the incredible authors who contributed to this issue: www.pdcnet.org/collection-a...

Over the moon that a review symposium on my book, The Life Worth Living, is out in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. It is such an honor to receive this sort of critical engagement and to respond to it. puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu... #disability #philsky #phenomenology

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies Just published, edited by @joelmreynolds.bsky.social and Mercer Gary with many terrific contributors www.routledge.com/Disability-J... Ordered my copy today and looking forward to reading it!

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics. It takes up...

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IT'S OUT! 🤩 A special issue of Puncta - A Journal of Critical Phenomenology on "Fits and Misfits" that I co-edited with the fantastic Gail Weiss. So excited for it (all 144 pages!) to be published open access! puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Fits and Misfits | Puncta

The special issue of Puncta entitled "Fits and Misfits" was guest edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Gail Weiss.

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My piece on the NIH decision to formally designate disabled people as a health disparity population is out today in JAMA Health Forum! #disability #publichealth #NIH jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

National Institutes of Health Designates Disabled People a Health Disparity Population

Explore the latest in national and global health policy, including health care pricing, delivery, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.

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And it's no surprise that Americans think this way. Not having a decent net increases inequality, which encourages belief in meritocracy, since it's psychologically reassuring to believe that good choices are enough to get ahead. 7/ academic.oup.com/ser/article-...

The paradox of inequality: income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand

Abstract. Inequality is on the rise: gains have been concentrated with a small elite, while most have seen their fortunes stagnate or fall. Despite what sc

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Thrilled to be speaking again at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics's Intensive Bioethics Course (nearly in its 50th year) next week. My talk is on "Quality of Life," and I speak shortly after none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, so I better bring my A game! ibc.georgetown.edu/program-sche...

Program Schedule - Intensive Bioethics Course

KENNEDY INSTITUTE OF ETHICS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PELLEGRINO CENTER FOR CLINICAL BIOETHICS June 3-5, 2024 Georgetown University Main Campus Monday 3 June 9:00-9:45 am Registration and Coffee: Social...

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Wild to think it's been two years since The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality came out. I'm really looking forward to sharing the review symposium when it drops this fall from Puncta: A Journal of Critical Phenomenology. #disability #philsky #philosophy