Correction to: Journal of Medical Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09783-4

In the recently published article, the below corrections were not incorporated in the text body.

Introduction.

Current sentence: Similarly, the COVID-19 pandemic was many people’s first introduction to systemic racial inequity inequities in access to healthcare and inequities in access to the resources we need for proper health, like access to transportation, healthy foods, and clean air.”

Edit: Similarly, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced many people to systemic racial inequities in healthcare due to poor access to vital resources like transportation, healthy foods, and clean air.

Current sentence: Narratives allow Black people to be more complex and more fully human—experiencing all the joys and pitfalls of life—than the one-dimensional portrayals we are often given.

Edit: In contrast to the one-dimensional portrayals we are often given, narratives allow Black people to be accurately portrayed as intersectional, complex, and fully human—experiencing all the joys and pitfalls of life.

Current sentence: We aim to help bioethics refocus and remember its own rebellious roots that once called to empower all people, particularly those that are the least well-off among us, and make systems work for all people and their health goals.

Edit: We aim to help bioethics refocus and remember its own rebellious roots that once called to empower all people, particularly those that are the least well-off among us, and call on the field to advocate for systems that work for all people and their health goals.

Faith Fletcher.

Current sentence: Notably, he was the first Black doctor that I encountered and set the standard for how I should be treated in all healthcare interactions—with respect, care, and dignity.

Corrected sentence: Notably, the first Black doctor that I encountered, set the standard for how I should be treated in all healthcare interactions—with respect, care, and dignity.

Note: In the current publication, the word “and” is still in the sentence. Please remove “and” because it makes the sentence grammatically incorrect. Thank you.

Current sentence: Importantly, I assigned readings authored by scholars of color, particularly Black women scholars, who are severely under-cited in teaching and scholarly discourse (Cite Black Women n.d.). As a new instructor, I did not feel that I was offered the same level of respect as my colleagues.

Note: In the current publication, there isn’t a space between the reference and next sentence.

Jennifer James.

Title: Black lives matter: a call for abolition ethics

Corrected Title: Black Lives Matter: a call for abolition ethics

Insert subheadings:

First subheading (before “I recently interviewed….”): Segregated Care

Second subheading: (before “The effects of incarceration…”): Medicine and Carcerality

Third Subheading: (before “There are countless examples…”) Black Bioethics is Abolition Bioethics

Edits:

Current sentence: However, segregation within medicine and racism as a driving factor in health access and outcomes has never gone away.

Corrected sentence: However, segregation within medicine has never gone away and racism continues to be a driving force in differential and violent healthcare.

Current sentence: She described to me the very first day of her residency program. She was covering postpartum calls and was asked to see her very first patient.

Corrected sentence: She described seeing her first patient on the very first day of her residency program.

Current sentence: Fifty years after the end of the Tuskegee study, is bioethics merely bearing witness to racism without stepping in to intervene in the racist policies and practice at work within and on behalf of medicine?

Corrected sentence: Fifty years after the end of the Tuskegee study, is bioethics merely observing racism without stepping in to intervene in the racist policies and practice at work within and on behalf of medicine

Current sentence: Correctional officers often remain present during medical procedures and exams, often bearing witness to the most vulnerable and devastating conversations of an individual’s life.

Corrected sentence: Correctional officers often remain present during medical procedures and exams, often witnessing the most vulnerable and devastating conversations of an individual’s life.

Current sentence: Research has shown that shackling exacerbates clinician bias and can cause both active and passive harm to patients (Haber et al. 2022).

Corrected sentence: Research has shown that shackling and police presence exacerbate clinician bias and can cause both active and passive harm to patients (Haber et al. 2022).

Current sentence: The reason I raise issues of policing and incarceration here

is what feels like a striking disconnect between calls to focus on racism, which emerged during the Black Lives Matter moment, and what feels like a silence around these forms of violence from within bioethics.

Corrected sentence: I raise issues of policing and incarceration here to highlight what feels like a striking disconnect between calls to focus on racism, which emerged during the Black Lives Matter moment, and what feels like a silence around these forms of violence from within bioethics.

Current sentence: To claim that Black lives matter and purport to advance anti-racism while at the same time….

Corrected sentence: To claim that Black Lives Matter and purport to advance anti-racism while at the same time…

Current sentence: Bioethics has taken up the call that Black lives matter.

Corrected sentence: Bioethics has taken up the call that Black Lives Matter.

The original article has been corrected.