Emily McGill

Perinatal Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Marnie K. McLean, Bradley J. Petek, Lidija McGrath, Emily McGill et autres

The purpose of this narrative review was to summarize perinatal exercise guidelines and associations of perinatal physical activity and/or exercise with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Observational studies, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses were included. Gaps in literature and suggestions for …

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Am I Gaslighting Myself?

Emily McGill

The concept of self-gaslighting has recently become prevalent in popular discourse but has yet to be subjected to detailed philosophical analysis. In this paper, I examine one context in which self-gaslighting is often discussed: situations in which someone has experienced trauma. I …

Autonomy, Oppression, and Feminist Philosophical Methods

Serene J. Khader, Emily McGill

Feminist autonomy theorists disagree about how best to characterize the harms of oppression. Relational autonomy theorists believe that a central harm of oppression is that it undermines autonomy. To vindicate this intuition, relational theorists engineer the concept of autonomy to be substantive …

Prohairesis and a Stoic-Inspired Feminist Autonomy

Emily McGill

The idea that the ancient Stoics are (proto)feminists is relatively common. Even those critical of this position acknowledge that certain features of Stoicism render the philosophical program appropriate for a feminist reimagining. Yet less attention has been paid to developing a positive …

Comments on Andréa Daventry, “Seeing Oneself as a Source of Reasons: Gaslighting, Oppression, and Autonomy”

Emily McGill

Delston, Jill B. Medical Sexism: Contraception Access, Reproductive Medicine, and Health Care. London: Lexington Books, 2019. Pp. 360. $115.00 (cloth).

Emily McGill

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Commentary on Rich Eva’s “Religious Liberty and the Alleged Afterlife”

Emily McGill

Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare by Yvonne Chiu

Emily McGill

Stem cells in the treatment of sickle cell disease

Vincent S. Gallicchio, Emily McGill

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is autosomal recessive disorder that is the result of a point mutation in the coding region of the beta globin gene. Polymerization of red blood cells with the sickle hemoglobin result in painful clinical symptoms and early death …

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Review of The Moral Nexus, by R. Jay Wallace

Emily McGill

Relational Autonomy and Ameliorative Inquiry

Emily McGill

This paper suggests that the contemporary feminist debate on relational autonomy is best understood as an attempt at ameliorative inquiry—the concept of autonomy is defined in order to secure political and theoretical advantages. Most theorists adopt some sort of constructionist, or relational, …

Reported rationales for HPV vaccination vs. Non-vaccination among undergraduate and medical students in South Carolina

John Barrera, S.V. Greene, E. Petyak, Sarah Ann E. Kenneson et autres

Objective: We sought to identify factors that influence Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates in individuals at two higher education institutions in South Carolina (SC).Participants: We surveyed 1007 students with a mean age and standard deviation of 20.3 ± 3.3 from September 2018 …

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