social & medical anthropologist | @wellcometrust fellow @anthroedinburgh @uoessps | reviews editor @medanthrotheory | on Bluesky @mgbevans.bsky.social 🦋
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Our research reveals that people with disabilities face obstetric ableism in labour and delivery care. Collaborative, respectful, disability-affirming care can advance #DisabilityJustice in childbirth. Read more: bmcpregnancychildbirth.biome…
5/5 Our analysis uses data from the Disability & Pregnancy Study, led by @HilaryKBrown @latarasoff @ProulxLaurie @queer_kate @yonalunsky et al. at @UTSCDHS @UTSCresearch The full community report is available here: ices.on.ca/publications/rese…
4/5 Shared decision-making is especially important in the context of ableism—disabled pregnant people & parents are too often presumed incompetent. Shared decision-making can help disrupt obstetric ableism in childbirth & facilitate collective access to labour & delivery care.
3/5 Johanna explained that by participating in the care planning meeting, she and her spouse were able to express their concerns to clinicians and have those concerns addressed. She said, “That made me feel good because everybody was in the room and listening to me.”
2/5 Providers can facilitate shared decision-making by valuing and respecting patient input. For example, it was meaningful to Johanna (pseudonym) that everybody involved in her care—including her & her spouse—participated in a care planning meeting in advance of the birth.
🧵1/5 We found that shared decision-making is key to promoting collaborative, respectful, and disability-affirming care. This means care-related decisions are shared between patients & providers (v providers making decisions for patients, or deferring care decisions to patients).
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#editorschoice #cjph_rcsp Preconception health disparities among reproductive-aged women with and without disabilities in Canada. By @latarasoff @mgbevans @HilaryKBrown et al. doi.org/10.17269/s41997-024-…
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Over the last 7 years, our team has undertaken the largest study of disability and pregnancy in Canada.
We analyzed data on ~150,000 births to people with disabilities and talked to 62 people about their experiences of pregnancy care. 1/16
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When ppl claim "mental illness" invalidates political acts like self-immolation, it reveals a lot about their view of disabled people's autonomy & capacity for political engagement. It implies political choices are less valid bc of disability. We shouldn't entertain this. 1/
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If there was ever a time to donate to UNRWA, it is now. When 9 Western countries - led by the US - have decided to cut their funding in a dystopian retaliation for the ICJ ruling, and therefore cut Palestinians' main source of humanitarian assistance.
donate.unrwa.org/-landing-pa…
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🚨Postdoc Opportunity: I am looking for a #postdoc to lead a qualitative study at the University of Toronto on pregnancy care experiences among people with multiple chronic conditions. Msg me for details. More info on my lab here: bit.ly/33tn7O8 Please RT! @UofT @UTSC
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Check out @mgbevans new journal article in @medanthq! This is such a lovely ethnographic piece on how music therapists pursue clinical recognition in hospitals while grappling with the impossibilities of caring and healing within a biomedical model #AnthroTwitter
Check out my @medanthq article on clinical recognition, #musictherapy, and the aesthetics of care, available open access: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.w… #anthrotwitter #medicalanthropology @UTSCDHS @UTSCresearch @CASCAmedanth @SocMedAnthro
Check out my @medanthq article on clinical recognition, #musictherapy, and the aesthetics of care, available open access: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.w… #anthrotwitter #medicalanthropology @UTSCDHS @UTSCresearch @CASCAmedanth @SocMedAnthro
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I am thrilled to share our set of resources for birthing parents with disabilities, service-providers, and administrators: pcmch.on.ca/disability-and-p…. These resources were created collaboratively with @PCMCH_ON and the advisory committee for our Disability and Pregnancy Study. 1/
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Our Executive Director, Chrissy Pearson, sat down with @SimoneDenny to discuss why supporting music therapy is so necessary. We are close to our R2R goal. Thanks to you, we have raised $121,092. Please donate here bit.ly/3XHv4WJ to help us hit our goal of $150,000!
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Check out our video to learn more about how you can participate in the Disability and Reproductive Health Study youtu.be/PsRDZeOQUjc
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Important piece in @HealthyDebate by @UTSCresearch @UTSCDHS postdoctoral fellow @mgbevans and team on accessibility of reproductive health care for Canadians with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: bit.ly/3RyM3a5
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“People with disabilities have the right to accessible care.”
An ongoing study looks at the #reproductivehealth of women, nonbinary & trans people living with a #disability.
Find out how you can get involved. @DisabilitySRH @UofT@DAWNRAFHCanada
healthydebate.ca/2022/10/top…
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Read about our work with @DAWNRAFHCanada on disability and reproductive health in @HealthyDebate
healthydebate.ca/2022/10/top…
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Researchers at the @UofT in partnership w/ @DAWNRAFHCanada are running a study to understand reproductive health of women & trans people w/ disabilities in Canada during #COVID19 pandemic. Learn more by visiting the study website today: buff.ly/3yL2WZ8
