Psychology must grapple with Whiteness

Why doctors must grapple with health economics?

Medical journals are publishing more and more articles that report on not just the medical but also the economic consequences of treatment. The main constraints on health care are now more financial than medical or technical, and the separation of clinical judgment from financial responsibility will soon end-clinical budgeting, for example, is just around the corner. More doctors are becoming f...

Beyond Coercion: Let Us Grapple With Bias.

The past decade has seen significant change in access to contraception, including long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), the intrauterine device (IUD), and subdermal implant. A new hormonal IUD, Liletta, has introduced healthy market competition. Data from large studies in St. Louis and Colorado demonstrate the population-level effect of contraception. There is also guidance for the pract...

Into the winter whiteness.

A father recounts a transformative journey of love, loss, and learning as his son developed and eventually died of a fungal infection that occurred during a period of immunocompromise after a bone marrow transplantation to treat hypodiploid leukemia. He then thanks the many physicians, researchers, family members, and friends who came together to memorialize his son and create knowledge, hope, ...

Malawi health workers grapple with rising incidence of rape.

PSYCHOLOGY MUST MOVE BEYOND FLAWED NHST PRACTICES Psychology is addicted to null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), despite decades

Psychology remains addicted to null hypothesis significance testing despite decades of effort by reformers. Extensive changes in statistical understanding and practices are needed. The authors propose a model of reform—the statistical re-education of psychology—by making an analogy with the conceptual change model of learning. Four diverse components of reform are identified, and illustrated by...