Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Disability: Opportunities for Biological Psychiatry. Journal Abstract

Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Disability: Opportunities for Biological Psychiatry.

Publication Date: 2022 Dec

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Authors

Perry Zurn; Joseph Stramondo; Joel Michael Reynolds; Dani S Bassett

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

Given its subject matter, biological psychiatry is uniquely poised to lead STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives related to disability. Drawing on literatures in science, philosophy, psychiatry, and disability studies, we outline how that leadership might be undertaken. We first review existing opportunities for the advancement of DEI in biological psychiatry around axes of gender and race. We then explore the expansion of biological psychiatry's DEI efforts to disability, especially along the lines of representation and access, community accountability, first-person testimony, and revised theoretical frameworks for pathology. We close with concrete recommendations for scholarship and practice going forward. By tackling head-on the challenge of disability inclusion, biological psychiatry has the opportunity to be a force of transformation in the biological sciences and beyond.

Source

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging

Pub Types(s)

Journal Article

Language

English

PubMed ID

36038045