Keisha Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5122526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keisha Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7010-5006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Psychedelics beyond medicine
The current revival of interest in classic psychedelics and other psychoactives such as ketamine and MDMA, coupled with changes to their regulatory status in many jurisdictions, necessitates rigorous ethical guidelines both within and beyond clinical and scientific contexts. This paper examines crucial ethical, philosophical, and policy considerations needed to ensure psychedelic use across various settings remains equitable, beneficial, consensu…
Narrating the Black Body in “Under the Skin” - Review of Linda Villarosa, 2022. Under the Skin
Poor health is not inherently a part of Black Americans’ bodies; poor health is not in our DNA. But as Linda Villarosa says in Under the Skin “ something about being Black has led to the documented poor health of Black Americans.” 1 Like many other scholars of Black health have said, Villarosa proposes, and evidence supports, that “the something is racism.” 2 Villarosa attributes Black people’s generally inferior health outcomes in areas like pre…
Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Racism in healthcare and bioethics
Race, as a ‘technology for the management of human difference’1 has profound repercussions for the health and flourishing of human beings across the world. Discrimination based on race occurs in our interpersonal relationships and institutions and influences people's access to fair health outcomes. This has once again become severely apparent in the pandemic. COVID-19 has created and reinforced health disparities that disproportionately harmed Bl…
Holding Them Accountable
In this essay, I detail commitments that some of the major health organizations—the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—have made to addressing anti‐Black racism and discuss their policies meant to curtail racism's effects on health equity. Although these organizations’ historical lack of action has contributed to a culture of anti‐Black racism in health care and…
Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black People
Access to care is a health determinant because health care resources, interventions, and personnel help maintain health and well-being. In addition to social determinants' roles in health inequity, clinicians' racial bias undermines the quality of Black persons' health care experiences and is a pathway to iatrogenic harm. This article considers pain management and limb amputation outcomes as examples of how clinicians' racial biases exacerbate in…
Addressing Anti‐Black Racism in Bioethics
As a field concerned with ethical issues in health and health care, particularly how structures, policies, and practices unfairly advantage some and disadvantage others, bioethics has a moral obligation to address the long-standing challenges that racism has posed to the overall health and well-being of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people and other people of color. Arguably, the premature death and disease disproportionately affecting Black Amer…
In the Name of Racial Justice
Facilities that emit hazardous toxins, such as toxic landfills, oil refineries, and chemical plants, are disproportionately located in predominantly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous neighborhoods. Environmental injustices like these threaten just distribution of health itself, including access to health that is not dependent on having the right skin color, living in the right neighborhood, or making the right amount of money. Facilities that emit en…
Going Beyond the Data
Addressing Anti‐Black Racism in Bioethics
As a field concerned with ethical issues in health and health care, particularly how structures, policies, and practices unfairly advantage some and disadvantage others, bioethics has a moral obligation to address the long-standing challenges that racism has posed to the overall health and well-being of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people and other people of color. Arguably, the premature death and disease disproportionately affecting Black Amer…
In the Name of Racial Justice
Facilities that emit hazardous toxins, such as toxic landfills, oil refineries, and chemical plants, are disproportionately located in predominantly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous neighborhoods. Environmental injustices like these threaten just distribution of health itself, including access to health that is not dependent on having the right skin color, living in the right neighborhood, or making the right amount of money. Facilities that emit en…
Going Beyond the Data
Racism in healthcare and bioethics
Race, as a ‘technology for the management of human difference’1 has profound repercussions for the health and flourishing of human beings across the world. Discrimination based on race occurs in our interpersonal relationships and institutions and influences people's access to fair health outcomes. This has once again become severely apparent in the pandemic. COVID-19 has created and reinforced health disparities that disproportionately harmed Bl…
Holding Them Accountable
In this essay, I detail commitments that some of the major health organizations—the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—have made to addressing anti‐Black racism and discuss their policies meant to curtail racism's effects on health equity. Although these organizations’ historical lack of action has contributed to a culture of anti‐Black racism in health care and…
Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black People
Access to care is a health determinant because health care resources, interventions, and personnel help maintain health and well-being. In addition to social determinants' roles in health inequity, clinicians' racial bias undermines the quality of Black persons' health care experiences and is a pathway to iatrogenic harm. This article considers pain management and limb amputation outcomes as examples of how clinicians' racial biases exacerbate in…
Addressing Anti‐Black Racism in Bioethics
As a field concerned with ethical issues in health and health care, particularly how structures, policies, and practices unfairly advantage some and disadvantage others, bioethics has a moral obligation to address the long-standing challenges that racism has posed to the overall health and well-being of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people and other people of color. Arguably, the premature death and disease disproportionately affecting Black Amer…
Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Narrating the Black Body in “Under the Skin” - Review of Linda Villarosa, 2022. Under the Skin
Poor health is not inherently a part of Black Americans’ bodies; poor health is not in our DNA. But as Linda Villarosa says in Under the Skin “ something about being Black has led to the documented poor health of Black Americans.” 1 Like many other scholars of Black health have said, Villarosa proposes, and evidence supports, that “the something is racism.” 2 Villarosa attributes Black people’s generally inferior health outcomes in areas like pre…
Psychedelics beyond medicine
The current revival of interest in classic psychedelics and other psychoactives such as ketamine and MDMA, coupled with changes to their regulatory status in many jurisdictions, necessitates rigorous ethical guidelines both within and beyond clinical and scientific contexts. This paper examines crucial ethical, philosophical, and policy considerations needed to ensure psychedelic use across various settings remains equitable, beneficial, consensu…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Racism (6 works) · Bioethics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)