Reframing Health Ethics to Support Liberation

Lucy Aphramor
9 min readMay 12, 2020
Photo by Hush Naidoo on Unsplash

Thankfully, most people want to be good. We want to be good at our jobs and we want to be ethical people. Phew.

Any healthcare professional will tell you our first duty is the ethical injunction Do No Harm.

Even so, despite best intentions, we’ve been getting it very wrong. That’s because we’re using reductionist science. This scientific thinking understands…

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Lucy Aphramor

Lucy Aphramor is a radical dietitian and performance poet. They are Associate Professor of Gender, Power, and The Right to Food at CAWR, Coventry University UK.