Dr. Alyssa Burgart | Dying on the Table: Post-Roe American Medicine

A Conversation Dr. Alyssa Burgart

The June 2022 Dobbs decision turned abortion regulation over to the states, allowing “trigger laws” to immediately restrict patients’ already limited abortion access. Not limited to abortion clinics, these laws send clinical practice into a tailspin, impacting preventative care to emergency services. Join this conversation about pregnant and pregnant-capable people, bodily autonomy, and the practice of medicine in the post-Roe landscape.

About the Speaker

Dr. Alyssa Burgart is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Stanford University. In addition to her work as an anesthesiologist, Dr. Burgart is a clinical ethicist, core faculty at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Co-Chair of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee, and ethics consultant at both Packard and Stanford Hospitals. Her ethics interests include pediatric ethics, maternal-fetal ethics, disability rights, healthcare related to gender, adolescent decision-making, and relationship-centered communication.
 

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Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop

The Medical Humanities is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from Linda Randall Meier, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.