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#FreeBritney: Autonomy, Conservatorships, and Mental Health in America
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By Jennifer L Young, PhD, Julia E H Brown, PhD, Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD  In a small but significant change of the tide, Britney Spears has been granted permission to have her own lawyer, to pursue her request to end her 13-year long conservatorship under the hands of her father. This has sparked a reassessment of the ethics of conservatorships, or legal guardianships, and how to distinguish between what Spears described as “conservatorship abuse” and a moral obligation to protect vulnerable people. …

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Posted on August 02, 2021
Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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By George J. Annas and Sondra S. Crosby This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics. Lowering the standard of care in a pandemic is a recipe for inferior care and discrimination. Wealthy white patients will continue to get “standard of care” medicine, while the poor and racial minorities (especially black and brown people) will get what is openly described as substandard care rationalized by the assertion that substandard care is all that we can deliver to them in a crisis.…

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Posted on July 30, 2021

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