September Williams, San Jose Mothers Milk Bank

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (eBook, ePUB)

BIOETHICAL CONCERNS IN HUMAN MILK BANKING
Redaktion: Carlson, Eric P

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From bioethicist September Williams, MD, the author of 'Chasing Mercury,' with Mothers' Milk Bank, San Jose, comes The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking. Seriously humorous, informative and timely, The Elephant… makes bioethics look sexy. The year 2018 will be remembered as pivotal in modern history. This year, the first mother-model (in more ways than one ) helped empower all families by breastfeeding her baby at work-on a runway during Fashion Week. How did we come to this point where breastfeeding is sensational?

In Dr. Williams hands, bioethics, some heady science, and public health are broken into bite-sized bits ingestible by 'everybody and their mothers'. She looks at worries about access to breastfeeding and breast milk equity. We are forced to consider why every infant can't receive breast milk when we are in the land of plenty in the USA and-science tells us that children and their mothers' health can be improved by breastfeeding.

"Should we let babies starve?" The Elephant asks. It is a not so 'tongue in cheek' example of a simplified moral question. The book wades through the pain of disproportionate infant mortality by race, maternal morbidity. The evidence is given for why parents and mothers plagued by high infant mortality might benefit from mind-body skill development. The ethical traps inherent in dependence on biotechnology and neonatal intensive care units reacting to prematurity, without an equal focus on diminishing root causes in communities of most need-are underlined.

The daily restocking of breast milk bank freezers, emptied by night to feed frail babies in need, is a miracle that is facilitated by donations from women's' bodies and hearts. The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking trumpets a song that can be easily heard by a wide range of people-women and men, health care professionals, owners of restaurants, bookstores, movie theaters, and the average person on the street. The clarion call? "More breast milk, please."

Not for profit Mothers' Milk Bank, San Jose provides over 1/2 million ounces of milk to babies in need annually. The easily needs twice as many donations annually to meet projected expanded needs- for those babies whose mothers who are unable, in the short run, to provide milk for them. This book reflects the MMB-SJ "call to arms," directed at those who hold babies and life dear. The proceeds of the Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking are being donated to Mothers' Milk Bank San Jose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: September Williams
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781532371875
• Artikelnr.: 56818365

Autorenporträt

September Williams is an American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker. All of her work seeks a better understanding of and between ourselves. She focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation. Yet, her writing is fired by the humor which allows people and characters to make it through hard times. Her first novel, and the first in a series of three books, is Chasing Mercury, a romance-suspense-memoir about families committed to human and environmental rights. September's nonfiction writing covers health disparities, bioethics and film. She is a member of the National Writers Union (AFLCIO/UAW 1981), an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Though raised in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, September is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg Collegiate Division and has a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Manitoba, Canada. She attended Creighton University School of Medicine, and completed internal medicine residency at Cook County Hospital, Chicago. A tribute to her vanguard nature, September holds three fellowships which did not exist the day she started medical school. She was an ASPEN (American Society of Enteral and Parental Nutrition) Clinical Fellow in surgical hyperalimentation at Chicago Medical School; a Lowell T. Coggleshall Fellow at the University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; and an American College of Geriatric Medicine / HRSA Clinical Geriatrics Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. A significant concentration of Dr. Williams' clinical work has been in acute care, emergency medicine and palliative care. Public medical facilities have been her primary venues of practice in Chicago, Boston, New Mexico, Mazimbu - Morogoro Tanzania, and San Francisco. While at the University of Chicago, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, September was particularly encouraged to continue writing by the late philosopher and author, Stephen Toulmin. With him, she explored how universal stories influence peoples' expectations of medicine and science, autonomy and justice-particularly when adapted to screen. Dr. Williams subsequently learnt her film craft in the screenwriting and directing MFA program at Columbia College, Chicago and at Boston University, while also working in an inner city trauma center. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute Fellow in Black Film, at the Zora Neal Hurston Center for the Documentary. Dr. Williams is a co-editor, author, and reviewer of books, articles and films related to medical and bioethical issues. Over twenty-five years, Dr. Williams has provided more than a thousand lectures and consultations in clinical and organizational bioethics. Beyond her hospital based service and teaching, some of this work has been for the Centers for Disease Control, the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, Harvard AIDS Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center for Practical Bioethics, the American Academy of Pain Management, and the McGann Women & Health Lecture Series at Stanford University. Dr. Williams retired early from the San Francisco City and County's Laguna Honda Hospital-God's Hotel. September has two millennial adult children and lives in Marin County, California, where she dances, open water rows the San Francisco Bay, and writes.