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Doctors in India Need Human Rights Training to Advocate for Prison Reform

Delighted that the work that co-authors Shivam Singh and Farhad Udwadia and I did examining how much medical students in India are taught about human rights and conditions inside their own prisons. Our paper can be found here in the … Continue reading

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Looking for Input: How do Trump Supporters Talk About and/Mourn Loved Ones Who Die of COVID?

It strikes me as impossibly difficult for individuals who lose loved ones to COVID. but whose politics make it hard (or impossible) for them to acknowledge the seriousness of COVID, to properly mourn their dead loved ones. Please send thoughts/anecdotes … Continue reading

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Torture in the name of health: ICE is using solitary confinement to curb the spread of COVID

Many people don’t know that individuals in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody are regularly placed in solitary confinement (often termed “administrative or disciplinary segregation”) for extended periods of time, a horrific practice that Ellen Gallagher Esq. has bravely … Continue reading

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How to Survive a Quarantine Winter

Here is another blog on Psychology Today authored by Jessica Tepper and myself.

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COVID in jails and prisons

We moved to Houston 3 months ago and just unpacked our last box last Saturday. This is my first letter in the Houston Chronicle. COVID or no, prison reform/decarceration for many who are currently being held is long overdue. The … Continue reading

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Advocating for Change: Neuroethics and Race

Once again delighted to have former students Zamina Mithani and Jane Cooper co-author a piece on bioethics and race. Our latest blog post on the topic is now live at the Emory Nueroethics site here. Bioethics needs to use its … Continue reading

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When the treatment is torture: ICE must stop using solitary confinement for Covid-19 quarantine

Super proud to be a co-author on this piece, which highlights the horrors ICE detainees are facing. Kudos to Sam Fox and Ellen Gallagher.

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The Horrors on our Southern Border Being Perpetrated by our Government against Asylum Seekers

Very, very honored to have participated in this panel discussion:

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Nutmeg Challenge Anyone?

I didn’t know this was a thing until Ian Lecklitner contacted me for comment. The articile in MEL magazine is here.

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What does it mean to ‘recover’ from the coronavirus?

I was quoted in this article written by Naomi Elegant in Fortune. The full text of the article is copied below: Along with the daily spikes in confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, a third, more hopeful number is also ticking … Continue reading

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