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

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

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!!

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...

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

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

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).

#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!

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!

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...

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...

Universal basic income works. Period. It helps cover the basic costs of living, and reduces labor pressure, which yields significant net improvement to society.

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-...

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...

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

Thrilled to speak at the MedStar Health-Georgetown University Research & Education Symposium tomorrow, part of GUMC's Center for Innovation in Leadership in Education. My talk is entitled "Improving Quality and Equity of Care for Disabled Patients through Better Medical Education about Disability."

Noelle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department at my grad alma matter Emory University, just got arrested for peacefully protesting.

The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality found out in the wild at a bookstore in Toronto! Thanks to @samerrox.bsky.social for passing this along!

Fantastic resource from The Hastings Center offering recommendations for medical educators and institutions to promote anti-ableism in medicine! #disability

Over the moon to announce that the book DISABILITY JUSTICE IN PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES is officially under contract with Routledge! It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the brilliant Mercer Gary to bring this edited volume to fruition. The author line-up is stellar. More details soon!

Excited to be giving a talk at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on February, 22nd, 3-4:30pm as part of their Academy on Health Disparities. The title is "Disability Health Disparities: From Analysis to Action." Friends who work at the NIH, if you wish to attend, DM me for details.

Tenured. Lots of emotions, but the primary one is gratitude to my family, for whom all of my work is carried out and who are its primary condition of possibility. Also, massive gratitude to John Lysaker, who has been a steadfast, catalyzing mentor for just shy of twenty years.

Thrilled for the authors-meets-critics panel on my book, The Life Worth Living, at the APA Eastern this week! Featuring Eva Feder Kittay and Kim Q. Hall, it's Thursday from 9:00-10:50am for those interested.

After receiving unanimous support across the board for tenure, Travis Holloway was denied it and fired by a university president at SUNY Farmingdale because Travis supported queer students and was openly gay. This is horrifying. Please sign the petition and spread the word far and wide.

How totally not surprising.

A growing body of literature has engaged with mass incarceration as a public health problem. This article reviews some of that literature, illustrating why and how bioethicists can and should engage with the problem of mass incarceration as a remediable cause of health inequities.

REMINDER: 100% renewable energy "would pay for itself in seven years." "It would reduce energy costs." "It would also save 63,000 lives from air pollution every year."

If you missed my interview of John Lysaker about his fantastic new book, Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness, it's now up on Youtube!

Whether you think disability issues are yours or not, please consider signing this.

I can't remember the last time a book affected me as has John Lysaker's Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness. I'm excited to chat with him about it for The Philosopher next Tuesday, December 12th at 7 PM. You can register at the link below.

Excited to give a talk alongside the fantastic Suzy Killmister at Monash University later today for a workshop on dehumanization!

Thrilled to be giving an invited lecture at this year's International Merleau-Ponty Circle in Melbourne! The IMPC has been one of my intellectual homes for many years now, and I can't wait to learn and think together.

The third issue of the JPD is out! The articles engage a wide range of debates in the field on topics ranging from dehumanization to German idealism to ChatGPT. Check it out and spread the word!

My review of Judith Butler's What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology is now up on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews! TL;DR: good book, but disability should have been center stage in their analysis.

So grateful for an author-meets-critics session on The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality at the 61st Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy! Jane Dryden and Licia Carlson provided such thoughtful readings of and insights into the book.

Friends in New Zealand/Aotearoa and Australia, I'm thrilled to be visiting for the first time in November and December. Please shoot me an email if you'd like more details and/or if you'd like to grab coffee.

Honored to be giving the Constitution Day Lecture at Hobart & William Smith Colleges next week. You can read more about my talk, "AMERICA THE EMBODIED: Democracy and the Future of Disability Justice" at the link.

Thanks, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, for this write-up about the one-year anniversary of The Disability Bioethics Reader! kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/news-and-ann...

Radical Philosophy Hour event w/ Oche Onazi and yours truly happening now! Click to watch the live-stream and to be part of the Q&A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpER3Q8WsSw

Thrilled to be in conversation with Oche Onazi at the upcoming Radical Philosophy Hour--live on Youtube August 7th at 4pmEST. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1JHUaoDnKRAetTH-gQYR2g