By Rotem Olsha When it comes to mental health, doctors are often forgotten patients. The stress associated with the immense workload, societal pressures, and liability for their patients directly affects their ability to treat the ill. These providers experience a … Read more

By Sydney Buck The HIV-AIDS epidemic revealed the worst of the healthcare system. Individuals, especially members of the LGBTQ+ community, were targeted in society as conduits of a plague. Physicians, as well as society, constructed their perception of HIV upon … Read more

By Rose Anim The Eugenics movement in the United States resulted in the sterilization of minorities deemed unfit for reproduction. The movement initially focused its attention on sterilizing those deemed to have been “feebleminded”; which is the idea that so-called … Read more

By Amienata Fatajo In this paper, I further expand on the implications of communication-based structural violence. Communication is defined as the imparting or exchanging of information or news. Regarding structural violence, communication-based structural violence emphasizes the idea that barriers to … Read more

By Ashley Habig Stigma is a very prevalent problem in mental health care that does not get talked about often enough. Stigma is often rooted in experiences and cultures people are surrounded by growing up, but can be broken down … Read more

By Baylee Materia “Well, it was pretty darn scary,” recalls Don Chaplin when asked about the early days of the HIV epidemic in North Carolina (Chaplin 0:34:45-0:34:50). An openly gay physician, Chaplin bore witness to an aggressive, unsympathetic social and … Read more

By Harrison Hayes Introduction “A cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivate the general public to fear, reject, avoid and discriminate against people… Stigma is about disrespect. It is the use of negative labels to identify a person living with … Read more

By McKenzie Roller In her interview with the Southern Oral History Project, Chasity Hargrove, a white woman from Newton Grove, NC, shares some details of her mother’s battle with mental illness. Hargrove describes how her mother “would try to medicate … Read more

By Anna Seaman Most people who reside within rural areas of the country lack access to healthcare facilities, physicians, and vital health-related resources. Spleen explains that rural populations have been associated with more significant rates of “healthcare avoidance” (Spleen). The … Read more

By Mike Hostutler Veterans in the United States require extensive healthcare following their service to our country as they are disproportionally affected by chronic injuries and illness resulting from their work. As such, it is vital that veterans access quality … Read more