Joel Michael Reynolds
@joelmreynolds.bsky.social
Philosopher of Disability & Bioethicist @Georgetown. They/he. Editor-in-Chief: @jphildis.bsky.social
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We are excited Episode 5 of Bioethics Chats is out NOW! 👏 🎉 HC President @VarditRavitsky and Joel Michael Reynolds, associate professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University and School of Medicine discuss #disabilityethics
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October 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We are excited Episode 5 of Bioethics Chats is out NOW! 👏 🎉 HC President @VarditRavitsky and Joel Michael Reynolds, associate professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University and School of Medicine discuss #disabilityethics
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It was a joy to discuss disability, bioethics, and why "research is a party" w/ @hastingscenter.bsky.social's President Vardit Ravitsky as part of their new Bioethics Chats series! #Bioethics #Disability #philsky #Science #Research
Bioethics Chats: Joel Michael Reynolds
Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, MA, is an associate professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University and School of Medicine and a
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October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It was a joy to discuss disability, bioethics, and why "research is a party" w/ @hastingscenter.bsky.social's President Vardit Ravitsky as part of their new Bioethics Chats series! #Bioethics #Disability #philsky #Science #Research
It was such a delight for the Georgetown Disability Studies Program to host Prof. Doron Dorfman to talk about his award-winning paper, "Third-Party Accommodations." It sparked many fruitful conversations about the ADA and how it could be epanded! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It was such a delight for the Georgetown Disability Studies Program to host Prof. Doron Dorfman to talk about his award-winning paper, "Third-Party Accommodations." It sparked many fruitful conversations about the ADA and how it could be epanded! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I am so excited to join the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice (MHHJ) this year as a faculty fellow to carry out research for my project, "Promoting Health Equity through a Networked Model of Disability." #disability #AI #healthcare #bioethics #medicine #publichealth
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August 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I am so excited to join the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice (MHHJ) this year as a faculty fellow to carry out research for my project, "Promoting Health Equity through a Networked Model of Disability." #disability #AI #healthcare #bioethics #medicine #publichealth
THE ART OF FLOURISHING is out! Breaking into the top 15 ethics books on Amazon today, I am so honored to have worked w/ Erik Parens, Liz Bowen, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and our brilliant contributors to bring this conversation out into the world! #disability #ethics tinyurl.com/w8z4kuat
June 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
THE ART OF FLOURISHING is out! Breaking into the top 15 ethics books on Amazon today, I am so honored to have worked w/ Erik Parens, Liz Bowen, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and our brilliant contributors to bring this conversation out into the world! #disability #ethics tinyurl.com/w8z4kuat
Honored to be giving a lecture followed by a workshop on my research at Universität Bonn in Frankfurt. It's an exciting opportunity to develop a line of inquiry that takes accessibility as the principle underwriting all human rights. #disability #accessibility #disabilityrights #humanrights
Worldcreation: On the Power of Accessibility
Every modern democratic political theory assumes its citizens to hold certain rights. But rights are meaningless without the access to exercise them. This talk will explore what it means to take acces...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Honored to be giving a lecture followed by a workshop on my research at Universität Bonn in Frankfurt. It's an exciting opportunity to develop a line of inquiry that takes accessibility as the principle underwriting all human rights. #disability #accessibility #disabilityrights #humanrights
The faculty of the Disability Studies program at Georgetown University, which I direct, just released a statement on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s horrific, ignorant, and ableist comments about autism. #disability #Autism #neurodiversity #disabilityrights #HHS #media #journalists
Statement of the Faculty of the Disability Studies program at Georgetown University on HHS Secretary's Comments on Autism - Disability Studies
The faculty members in the Disability Studies program at Georgetown University object in the strongest possible terms to United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s A...
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April 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The faculty of the Disability Studies program at Georgetown University, which I direct, just released a statement on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s horrific, ignorant, and ableist comments about autism. #disability #Autism #neurodiversity #disabilityrights #HHS #media #journalists
If you haven't joined AAUP, now is the time!!
all faculty and eligible university workers should pile into AAUP
DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
April 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
If you'd like a distraction from all the horrors, consider checking out five masterclasses on inclusive philosophies organized by The Philosopher! My Philosophy of Disability Masterclass is on Friday, March 28th 2pmEDT/6pmUK. Registration details below. www.thephilosopher1923.org/groups-class...
March 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you'd like a distraction from all the horrors, consider checking out five masterclasses on inclusive philosophies organized by The Philosopher! My Philosophy of Disability Masterclass is on Friday, March 28th 2pmEDT/6pmUK. Registration details below. www.thephilosopher1923.org/groups-class...
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Excited to see this book out in the world! Feminist Movements in Time and Space looks at mobilizations across Europe from the past decade. 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇵🇱🇸🇮🇪🇸🇹🇷
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#justpublished #genderstudies #feminism #academicsky
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#justpublished #genderstudies #feminism #academicsky
March 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Excited to see this book out in the world! Feminist Movements in Time and Space looks at mobilizations across Europe from the past decade. 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇵🇱🇸🇮🇪🇸🇹🇷
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#justpublished #genderstudies #feminism #academicsky
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#justpublished #genderstudies #feminism #academicsky
New paper day! "Impact of Physical Disability on Transplant Candidacy: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Transplant Professionals" is out in Disability and Health Journal. #disability #bioethics #healthdisparities philpapers.org/rec/MARIOP-9
Jessica Marengo, Joel Michael Reynolds, Liz Bowen, Christoph Nabzdyk & Mariah Tanious, Impact of Physical Disability on Transplant Candidacy: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Transplant Professionals -...
Background: While the solid organ transplant evaluation process is designed to function equitably, discriminatory practices remain, resulting in disparities in access for persons with disabilities. Ph...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New paper day! "Impact of Physical Disability on Transplant Candidacy: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Transplant Professionals" is out in Disability and Health Journal. #disability #bioethics #healthdisparities philpapers.org/rec/MARIOP-9
Grateful to all those who came out for my talk and book signing as part of USC's Visions and Voices series! Special thanks to Sabrina Derrington, the Keck School of Medicine’s Humanities, Ethics, Art, & Law Program, USC's Provost's Office, and the Center for Bioethics at Children's Hospital LA.
March 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Grateful to all those who came out for my talk and book signing as part of USC's Visions and Voices series! Special thanks to Sabrina Derrington, the Keck School of Medicine’s Humanities, Ethics, Art, & Law Program, USC's Provost's Office, and the Center for Bioethics at Children's Hospital LA.
If you are concerned about the (current and potential) impacts of AI use in healthcare for disabled people, take a look at this piece I co-authored now out in Nature Medicine: "Health AI Poses Distinct Harms and Potential Benefits for Disabled People." #disability #medicine #AI #justice
Charles Binkley, Joel Michael Reynolds & Andrew Schuman, Health AI Poses Distinct Harms and Potential Benefits for Disabled People - PhilPapers
This piece in Nature Medicine notes the risks that incorporation of AI systems into health care poses to disabled patients and proposes ways to avoid them and instead create benefit.
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January 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you are concerned about the (current and potential) impacts of AI use in healthcare for disabled people, take a look at this piece I co-authored now out in Nature Medicine: "Health AI Poses Distinct Harms and Potential Benefits for Disabled People." #disability #medicine #AI #justice
I'm excited that "Promises and Pitfalls of Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Polygenic Disorders (PGT-P): A Narrative Review" is out online-first in F&S Reviews. This comes from the 1st Conference on Polygenic Embryo Screening (Sep 2023).
Jaime Roura-Monllor, Zachary Walker, Joel Michael Reynolds, Greysha Rivera-Cruz, Avner Hershlag, Gheona Altarescu, Sigal Klipstein, Stacey Pereira, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, Shai Carmi, Todd Lencz & Ruth ...
Preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic disorders (PGT-P) has been commercially available since 2019. PGT-P makes use of polygenic risk scores for conditions which are multifactorial and are sig...
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January 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I'm excited that "Promises and Pitfalls of Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Polygenic Disorders (PGT-P): A Narrative Review" is out online-first in F&S Reviews. This comes from the 1st Conference on Polygenic Embryo Screening (Sep 2023).
#Disability Bluesky, go follow @jphildis.bsky.social, the first journal devoted to the field of philosophy of disability. The 4th issue just dropped (everything is open access), and it's a banger!
The fourth issue of The Journal of Philosophy of Disability is available (open access) now!
Check out the work of the incredible authors who contributed to this issue: www.pdcnet.org/collection-a...
Check out the work of the incredible authors who contributed to this issue: www.pdcnet.org/collection-a...
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December 12, 2024 at 3:43 AM
#Disability Bluesky, go follow @jphildis.bsky.social, the first journal devoted to the field of philosophy of disability. The 4th issue just dropped (everything is open access), and it's a banger!
Over the moon that a review symposium on my book, The Life Worth Living, is out in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. It is such an honor to receive this sort of critical engagement and to respond to it. puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu... #disability #philsky #phenomenology
December 2, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Over the moon that a review symposium on my book, The Life Worth Living, is out in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. It is such an honor to receive this sort of critical engagement and to respond to it. puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu... #disability #philsky #phenomenology
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Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies
Just published, edited by @joelmreynolds.bsky.social and Mercer Gary with many terrific contributors
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Ordered my copy today and looking forward to reading it!
Just published, edited by @joelmreynolds.bsky.social and Mercer Gary with many terrific contributors
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Ordered my copy today and looking forward to reading it!
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics. It takes up...
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November 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies
Just published, edited by @joelmreynolds.bsky.social and Mercer Gary with many terrific contributors
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Ordered my copy today and looking forward to reading it!
Just published, edited by @joelmreynolds.bsky.social and Mercer Gary with many terrific contributors
www.routledge.com/Disability-J...
Ordered my copy today and looking forward to reading it!
IT'S OUT! 🤩 A special issue of Puncta - A Journal of Critical Phenomenology on "Fits and Misfits" that I co-edited with the fantastic Gail Weiss. So excited for it (all 144 pages!) to be published open access!
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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Fits and Misfits | Puncta
The special issue of Puncta entitled "Fits and Misfits" was guest edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Gail Weiss.
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July 6, 2024 at 8:20 PM
IT'S OUT! 🤩 A special issue of Puncta - A Journal of Critical Phenomenology on "Fits and Misfits" that I co-edited with the fantastic Gail Weiss. So excited for it (all 144 pages!) to be published open access!
puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...
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My piece on the NIH decision to formally designate disabled people as a health disparity population is out today in JAMA Health Forum! #disability #publichealth #NIH jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
National Institutes of Health Designates Disabled People a Health Disparity Population
Explore the latest in national and global health policy, including health care pricing, delivery, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.
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June 14, 2024 at 7:00 PM
My piece on the NIH decision to formally designate disabled people as a health disparity population is out today in JAMA Health Forum! #disability #publichealth #NIH jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Universal basic income works. Period. It helps cover the basic costs of living, and reduces labor pressure, which yields significant net improvement to society.
June 2, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Universal basic income works. Period. It helps cover the basic costs of living, and reduces labor pressure, which yields significant net improvement to society.
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And it's no surprise that Americans think this way. Not having a decent net increases inequality, which encourages belief in meritocracy, since it's psychologically reassuring to believe that good choices are enough to get ahead. 7/
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The paradox of inequality: income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand
Abstract. Inequality is on the rise: gains have been concentrated with a small elite, while most have seen their fortunes stagnate or fall. Despite what sc
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June 2, 2024 at 5:55 PM
And it's no surprise that Americans think this way. Not having a decent net increases inequality, which encourages belief in meritocracy, since it's psychologically reassuring to believe that good choices are enough to get ahead. 7/
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Thrilled to be speaking again at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics's Intensive Bioethics Course (nearly in its 50th year) next week. My talk is on "Quality of Life," and I speak shortly after none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, so I better bring my A game! ibc.georgetown.edu/program-sche...
Program Schedule - Intensive Bioethics Course
KENNEDY INSTITUTE OF ETHICS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PELLEGRINO CENTER FOR CLINICAL BIOETHICS June 3-5, 2024 Georgetown University Main Campus Monday 3 June 9:00-9:45 am Registration and Coffee: Social...
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May 27, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Thrilled to be speaking again at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics's Intensive Bioethics Course (nearly in its 50th year) next week. My talk is on "Quality of Life," and I speak shortly after none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, so I better bring my A game! ibc.georgetown.edu/program-sche...
Wild to think it's been two years since The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality came out. I'm really looking forward to sharing the review symposium when it drops this fall from Puncta: A Journal of Critical Phenomenology. #disability #philsky #philosophy
May 19, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Wild to think it's been two years since The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality came out. I'm really looking forward to sharing the review symposium when it drops this fall from Puncta: A Journal of Critical Phenomenology. #disability #philsky #philosophy