“If You Could See What I See”: The Semiotics of “Invisibility” in Pedagogy and Practice

The Replicability Crisis in Patent Law

“…Note that because I have focused here on biomedical patents, I discuss these changes in the context of that industry. However, other industries also struggle with irreplicability, 289 and the policy suggestions are applicable across fields, therefore, they may be beneficial beyond the life sciences.…”

Normalizing Disability in Families

“…4 Ouellette links prenatal decisions selecting against disability to fertility specialists' refusal to serve disabled adults by situating both practices as "part of the same culture of pernicious discrimination in medicine." 5 Research reports and anecdotal accounts of physicians' negative attitudes toward the value of life with disability and failures to build inclusive practices provide context for how prospective parents are counseled about prenatal testing and for the specialists' decisions. 6 Ouellette also highlights a more direct linkage.…”

“…Ouellette notes in passing that disability-based selection implicates "familial" as well as reproductive liberty, but she focuses on how professional culture and legal rules affect and constrain individuals' reproductive choices. 10 Expanding the frame of reference to consider these decisions primarily as choices about family, involving a broad and enduring set of relations and experiences, not simply reproductive processes, may suggest additional approaches.…”

“…vide a safe environment. 13 Skepticism about a disabled person's parental fitness may reflect a failure to consider the full web of family supports devoted to raising a child. For example, a parent with an intellectual disability may be able to raise a child with support from his own parents or siblings, but judges may focus only on the parent's limitations and not consider the child's full family life.…”