healthcare policy

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
What My Father Never Signed: A Close Look at Patient Consent Standards in Medical Research
A coffee stained consent packet, a signature on the last page, and what one family learned afterward about how research consent actually works.

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
The Ghost of Your Husband Is Hiding in the Exam Room
No law requires a husband's signature for your tubal ligation, and the Supreme Court said so in 1976. Why hospitals still ask, and how to push back.
