Bioethics club hosts talk on importance of transgender health care
The Puget Sound Trail
Although the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed “Gender Identity Disorder” (a term that was used for transgender people) from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2012, oftentimes insurance requires that trans or non ...

What we must learn from Asperger exposé
The Guardian
Throughout this period, American and British psychiatrists endorsed eugenicist ideologies and sometimes heinous acts. To list but a few examples: autism's co-discoverer in America, Leo Kanner, supported sterilisation for the mentally disabled, while ...

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The semantics of sexuality
Fairfaxtimes.com
Medical associations which endorse use of “Sex Assigned at Birth” as the preferred term: the American Medical Association; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American Psychiatric Association; the Endocrine Society; the American College of ...

The rich bet on living longer lives
Press Herald
In the U.S., for example, the richest 1 percent of American women by income live more than 10 years longer than the poorest 1 percent, a 2016 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. For men, the gap between the richest and ...

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