Joel Michael Reynolds

THE ART OF FLOURISHING is out! Breaking into the top 15 ethics books on Amazon today, I am so honored to have worked w/ Erik Parens, Liz Bowen, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and our brilliant contributors to bring this conversation out into the world! #disability #ethics tinyurl.com/w8z4kuat

Honored to be giving a lecture followed by a workshop on my research at Universität Bonn in Frankfurt. It's an exciting opportunity to develop a line of inquiry that takes accessibility as the principle underwriting all human rights. #disability #accessibility #disabilityrights #humanrights

The faculty of the Disability Studies program at Georgetown University, which I direct, just released a statement on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s horrific, ignorant, and ableist comments about autism. #disability #Autism #neurodiversity #disabilityrights #HHS #media #journalists

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

To mark the two-week British Philosophical Association-led #PhilosophyMatters campaign running from 17th-31st March, The Philosopher is hosting five Zoom “masterclasses” on a range of inclusive philosophies. Each masterclass will be led by a prominent academic, who will give a short presentation before opening to discussion with the audience.

If you'd like a distraction from all the horrors, consider checking out five masterclasses on inclusive philosophies organized by The Philosopher! My Philosophy of Disability Masterclass is on Friday, March 28th 2pmEDT/6pmUK. Registration details below. www.thephilosopher1923.org/groups-class...

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Excited to see this book out in the world! Feminist Movements in Time and Space looks at mobilizations across Europe from the past decade. 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇵🇱🇸🇮🇪🇸🇹🇷

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#justpublished #genderstudies #feminism #academicsky

So great to work with lead Jessica Marengo on this study showing that (i) transplant professionals harbor inconsistent conceptions of physical function vs. physical disability & (ii) this may contribute to disparate access to solid organ transplant for those with physical disability. #disability

Jessica Marengo, Joel Michael Reynolds, Liz Bowen, Christoph Nabzdyk & Mariah Tanious, Impact of Physical Disability on Transplant Candidacy: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Transplant Professionals -... Background: While the solid organ transplant evaluation process is designed to function equitably, discriminatory practices remain, resulting in disparities in access for persons with disabilities. Ph...

New paper day! "Impact of Physical Disability on Transplant Candidacy: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Transplant Professionals" is out in Disability and Health Journal. #disability #bioethics #healthdisparities philpapers.org/rec/MARIOP-9

Joel Michael Reynolds (in a black button up and dark gray blazer) holding a poster for their talk "Disability, Medicine, and the Path to Health Justice" as part of the USC Visions and Voices 2025 series. They are standing next to an employee from the bookstore who is holding their book, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality."

Grateful to all those who came out for my talk and book signing as part of USC's Visions and Voices series! Special thanks to Sabrina Derrington, the Keck School of Medicine’s Humanities, Ethics, Art, & Law Program, USC's Provost's Office, and the Center for Bioethics at Children's Hospital LA.

Relatedly, I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be doing more work on disability and AI in healthcare as a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow of the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice. More about my project, "Promoting Health Equity through a Networked Model of Disability," soon!

Charles Binkley, Joel Michael Reynolds & Andrew Schuman, Health AI Poses Distinct Harms and Potential Benefits for Disabled People - PhilPapers This piece in Nature Medicine notes the risks that incorporation of AI systems into health care poses to disabled patients and proposes ways to avoid them and instead create benefit.

If you are concerned about the (current and potential) impacts of AI use in healthcare for disabled people, take a look at this piece I co-authored now out in Nature Medicine: "Health AI Poses Distinct Harms and Potential Benefits for Disabled People." #disability #medicine #AI #justice

Relatedly, I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be doing more work on disability and AI in healthcare as a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow of the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice. More about my project, "Promoting Health Equity through a Networked Model of Disability," soon!

The paper presents the view of a subset of that conference's OB/GYN's, endocrinologists, geneticists, psychologists, and bioethicists (represented by yours truly), the upshot of which is: we are far from any sort of ethical implementation of PGT-P.

Funded by the NIH, its aim was to build an initial framework for the consideration of the ethical, legal, and social implications of such screening.

Jaime Roura-Monllor, Zachary Walker, Joel Michael Reynolds, Greysha Rivera-Cruz, Avner Hershlag, Gheona Altarescu, Sigal Klipstein, Stacey Pereira, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, Shai Carmi, Todd Lencz & Ruth ... Preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic disorders (PGT-P) has been commercially available since 2019. PGT-P makes use of polygenic risk scores for conditions which are multifactorial and are sig...

I'm excited that "Promises and Pitfalls of Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Polygenic Disorders (PGT-P): A Narrative Review" is out online-first in F&S Reviews. This comes from the 1st Conference on Polygenic Embryo Screening (Sep 2023).

#Disability Bluesky, go follow @jphildis.bsky.social, the first journal devoted to the field of philosophy of disability. The 4th issue just dropped (everything is open access), and it's a banger!

Screenshot of the webpage for the journal "Puncta - Journal of Critical Phenomenology" with a multi-colored rock formation in the background. It specifies the special issue: Volume 7, no. 2: Symposium on Joel Michael Reynolds' The Life Worth LIving: Disability, Pain, and Morality.

Over the moon that a review symposium on my book, The Life Worth Living, is out in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. It is such an honor to receive this sort of critical engagement and to respond to it. puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu... #disability #philsky #phenomenology

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics. It takes up...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies

Just published, edited by @joelmreynolds.bsky.social and Mercer Gary with many terrific contributors

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Ordered my copy today and looking forward to reading it!

Many thanks to the fantastic team at Puncta, especially Martina Ferrari, for their work and steadfast support on the production side of things.

The pieces by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Susan Bredlau, Helen Fielding, Ann Murphy, Rachel Elliott, David Morris, Becca Longtin, and Laura McMahon push research at the intersection of Merleau-Ponty scholarship, disability studies, and phenomenology forward in novel and exciting ways.

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Fits and Misfits | Puncta The special issue of Puncta entitled "Fits and Misfits" was guest edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Gail Weiss.

IT'S OUT! 🤩 A special issue of Puncta - A Journal of Critical Phenomenology on "Fits and Misfits" that I co-edited with the fantastic Gail Weiss. So excited for it (all 144 pages!) to be published open access!
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National Institutes of Health Designates Disabled People a Health Disparity Population Explore the latest in national and global health policy, including health care pricing, delivery, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.

My piece on the NIH decision to formally designate disabled people as a health disparity population is out today in JAMA Health Forum! #disability #publichealth #NIH jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Universal basic income works. Period. It helps cover the basic costs of living, and reduces labor pressure, which yields significant net improvement to society.

The paradox of inequality: income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand Abstract. Inequality is on the rise: gains have been concentrated with a small elite, while most have seen their fortunes stagnate or fall. Despite what sc

And it's no surprise that Americans think this way. Not having a decent net increases inequality, which encourages belief in meritocracy, since it's psychologically reassuring to believe that good choices are enough to get ahead. 7/
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Program Schedule - Intensive Bioethics Course KENNEDY INSTITUTE OF ETHICS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PELLEGRINO CENTER FOR CLINICAL BIOETHICS June 3-5, 2024 Georgetown University Main Campus Monday 3 June 9:00-9:45 am Registration and Coffee: Social...

Thrilled to be speaking again at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics's Intensive Bioethics Course (nearly in its 50th year) next week. My talk is on "Quality of Life," and I speak shortly after none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, so I better bring my A game! ibc.georgetown.edu/program-sche...

The actual blurb for the book is probably better than what I just wrote though! :) www.amazon.com/Life-Worth-L...

The basic idea of the book is that ableism is fueled by necessarily linking experiences of disability with those of pain and suffering. But many forms of disability don't involve pain or suffering. Those who do experience pain and suffering do so for sometimes wildly different reasons.

An adorable miniature dachshund looking directly into the camera with his front right paw on the book, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" by Joel Michael Reynolds.

Wild to think it's been two years since The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality came out. I'm really looking forward to sharing the review symposium when it drops this fall from Puncta: A Journal of Critical Phenomenology. #disability #philsky #philosophy

Thrilled to speak at the MedStar Health-Georgetown University Research & Education Symposium tomorrow, part of GUMC's Center for Innovation in Leadership in Education. My talk is entitled "Improving Quality and Equity of Care for Disabled Patients through Better Medical Education about Disability."