My mom, the cancer warrior

'My Mom was my left arm': the lived experience of ableism for girls with Spina Bifida.

In many cultures, people deemed different, deficient or of lesser value are socially marginalized, disempowered, devalued and face innumerable barriers to health and quality of life. Persons deemed disabled are one such group. Through oppression, discrimination, and constant degradation, marginalized groups are denied the basic human right of dignity. For five girls with Spina Bifida, the exper...

Please don't call my mom: pediatric consent and confidentiality.

The Male-Warrior Hypothesis

Evolutionary scientists argue that human cooperation is the product of a long history of competition among rival groups. There are various reasons to believe that this logic applies particularly to men. In three experiments, using a step-level public-goods task, we found that men contributed more to their group if their group was competing with other groups than if there was no intergroup compe...

When My Mom Was a Little Girl . . . : Gender Differences in Adolescents’ Intergenerational and Personal Stories

Narratives about parents may help adolescents navigate their own experiences. Yet, research has not examined what adolescents know about their intergenerational past. Sixty-five 14to 16-year-old middle-class, racially diverse adolescents narrated two stories about each parent’s childhood, and 2 positive personal stories. Narratives were coded for structure (length, elaboration), theme (affiliat...

“My Mom Had a Stroke”: Understanding How Patients Raise and Providers Respond to Psychosocial Concerns

In the following transcribed excerpts, drawn from a routine medical interview, a patient repeatedly discloses that “My mom had a stroke.” On three different occasions, over the course of a single medical encounter, the patient invokes his mom’s illness as a significant factor influencing key health behaviors that are eventually discussed: excessive drinking, inadequate exercise and diet, and sl...