Intersectionality and Centering Voices in Bioethics: Disability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Harvard HMS

This interdisciplinary seminar examines how disability, race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of difference structure access to health, autonomy, dignity, and civil and human rights. Using disability studies and disability law alongside feminist, queer, and critical race bioethics, students will explore how social and legal systems conceptualize and regulate bodies and minds, and how stigma, anti-Blackness, racism, ableism, cisnormativity, and heteronormativity shape clinical practice,…