#asbh2025
I’m almost 50 yo and I’ve been fascinated by the Pacific NW my entire life, and yet this is the first time I’ve ever set foot in Oregon.

Excited to see Portland! #ASBH2025
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Looking forward to this session on abolitionist #bioethics at #asbh2025 (or is it #asbh25?)
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I have just seen a woman walking around with a taxidermied rooster. It is time to depart Portland. #ASBH2025
October 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Dr. Stramondo: "Wheelchairs are NEVER medically necessary. They are SOCIALLY necessary to allow the user to access social inclusion and the good of life. This is ... medicalizing access!" #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Dr. Cupples: Physicians and lawyers involved in disability determinations are considered highly credible but the person w/ the lived XP of disability themselves is deemed much less trustworthy #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Dr. Diaz: People w/ poor oral health are highly stigmatized in US society #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It shouldn't be so significant that Jerome Adams is advocating for universal health care at the #asbh2025 plenary, but it is.

Why can't ASBH advocate for this institutionally?
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My favourite conference moment so far 🦙 #ASBH2025
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There's quite a few sessions on disability ethics here at #ASBH2025, and I'm especially excited to be attending the session on "Combating Structural Gaslighting through Disability Narratives" and listening to Joseph Stramondo, from whom I learn much! #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Next presentation is from Dr. Marissa Diaz on unmet dental needs and disability, with a mixed methods focus -- the presentation here focuses on the qualitative findings #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Nicole Foti (Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics) presents interesting discussion of “digital determinants” of health and AI #asbh2025
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dr. Cupples and Mr. James: "Administrative systems such as the disability benefits apparatus purport to serve needs of a vulnerable population while harming them in practice" -- this is administrative violence hidden behind a mask of benevolence, & structural gaslighting accomplishes this #ASBH2025
October 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Dr. Diaz: Only six English-language studies focused on the actual lived experiences of disabled people with unmet dental health needs 👀 #ASBH2025 #Bioethics

(major themes in this study: dental underinsurance, lack of accommodations in the dentist's office)
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I mean *I've* got plenty :)
Looking forward to this at #asbh2025
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Meeting Caesar the No Drama Llama was not only the highlight of this year's ASBH 2025, but maybe the highlight of every conference I've ever attended. #asbh2025
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Quinn Waeiss (Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics) with great talk on patient and provider perspectives on AI communication tools in healthcare #asbh2025
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
At #asbh25, we're celebrating the 25th anniversary of Loyola Bioethics. Stop by our booth in Portland today. And visit our anniversary page that celebrates our journey through 25 years of "Education as Accompaniment." (It's got some cool videos). #asbh2025 www.luc.edu/stritch/bioe...
: Loyola University Chicago
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October 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Dr. Stramondo is citing provisions from CMS regs that medicalize access and embodies #StructuralGaslighting #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I wish we as ethicists could agree to stop calling patients “noncompliant.” The word compliant suggests patients *must* comply with medical instructions, rather than engaging in shared decision making about whether they wish to adhere to recommendations. #ASBH25 #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Dr. Stramondo: The medical model of disability is a "justifying story and mythology" that upholds structures of oppression by gatekeeping access to social goods via medical criteria #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Dr. Stramondo: This work of medical gatekeeping intersects with and exemplifies Nora Berenstain's work on #StructuralGatekeeping #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I did not realize that the president of ASBH is the head of the National Center for Health Care Ethics at the VA. I hope the best for her and that center. #asbh2025
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Dr. Stramondo is locating this work in a book he is writing on philosophy and assistive technology #ASBH2025 #Bioethics #DisabilityEthics
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
More talks about disability justice & the importance of increasing the diversity of ASBH & as usual not one word was uttered about or accommodation made for anyone whose disability leaves them immunocompromised, which is about 6.6% of Americans, some of whom are ethicists.
#ASBH2025 (1/2)
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I ❤️ Bioethics— this is Michelle Pham of Michigan State U giving an inspiring talk on Community Based Participatory Research #ASBH2025
October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM