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Teaching About Sexual Minorities: An Iowa Experience, Veronika E.B. Kolder, Nashae Y. Julian
Teaching About Sexual Minorities: An Iowa Experience, Veronika E.B. Kolder, Nashae Y. Julian
Veronika E.B. Kolder Dr.
Despite greater social acceptance of sexual minorities and growing national support for equal medical care, disparities in healthcare access persist. Medical school curricula allot limited time to sexuality education and students’ perceptions. Combining the topics of sexual response and sexual minority healthcare may perpetuate the misconception that lesbianism and transgender identity are deviations from normal sexual functioning. We comment on teaching about sexual minority healthcare at our medical school and argue for a review of medical educator preparation and existing curricula.
Teaching About Sexual Minorities: An Iowa Experience, Veronika E.B. Kolder, Nashae Y. Julian
Teaching About Sexual Minorities: An Iowa Experience, Veronika E.B. Kolder, Nashae Y. Julian
Veronika E.B. Kolder Dr.
Despite greater social acceptance of sexual minorities and growing national support for equal medical care, disparities in healthcare access persist. Medical school curricula allot limited time to sexuality education and students’ perceptions. Combining the topics of sexual response and sexual minority healthcare may perpetuate the misconception that lesbianism and transgender identity are deviations from normal sexual functioning. We comment on teaching about sexual minority healthcare at our medical school and argue for a review of medical educator preparation and existing curricula.
Establishment Of A Clinical Gestational Carrier Program: Medical, Ethical, Legal And Policy Issues, Ginny Ryan
Establishment Of A Clinical Gestational Carrier Program: Medical, Ethical, Legal And Policy Issues, Ginny Ryan
Ginny L. Ryan
Pressures to expand, advancing technologies, and increased public exposure of in vitro fertilization (IVF) compels ongoing evaluation of the medical, ethical, and legal proprietary of this high tech infertility treatment, especially when used to build non-traditional families. Recently, the University of Iowa’s Center for Advanced Reproductive Care considered the possibility of adding gestational carrier (popularly known as “surrogacy”) services to our program. The IVF Ethics Committee considered practical realities and inherent ethical issues including the number of invested parties, significant economic costs, risks taken on by the gestational carrier, and the potential for free market exploitation. The Committee resolved that …