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2024-11-19 16:05 UTC

On July 14, 1970, a group of activists, many of them in their late teens and early 20s, occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. They barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and more accessible health care for the community. The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital led to one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide. #Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_ALMA1NMk #YoungLords #selfDefence #publicHealth #health #blackMastodon #healthCare #healthLife #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety #personalSafety #communitySafety #community #history #NYT #LincolnHospital #USHistory #Bronx #SouthBronx #NYC

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@estelle@techhub.social 2025-10-22 09:27

"Paternalism occurs when the autonomy of a competent person is overridden on the grounds that an action is intended to improve their well-being. The risk of paternalism in healthcare is significant because of the power dynamic between a person in need of treatment and a person who is able to offer treatment within an establishment that is considered to be authoritative." "In this paper, I show that the appeal of alternative medicine to women relates to the neglect of women’s health needs within scientific medicine." Alternative medicine "is valued both for pragmatic medical reasons—because it is believed to be effective, it is assumed to have few or no side effects, it is deemed to be more “natural”—and for ideological reasons—because it is believed to offer control over health, be non-authoritarian, and improve patient autonomy by avoiding paternalism and universalism." Arianne Shahvisi: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6474852/ via @Sohan #healthcare #autonomy #AlternativeMedicine #health #publicHealth #medicine

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