CHSPR Seminar | Patient Perspectives on Routine Pregnancy Testing: An Ethical Inquiry

Speaker: Amanda Sears, PhD Student, UBC School of Population and Public Health

This presentation will critically explore the ethical dimensions of routine pregnancy testing in acute clinical care through the framework of epistemic injustice. Using data from close- and open-ended survey questions, this talk will present the results of a thematic analysis to examine the implications of routine pregnancy testing practices for trust, care delivery, and patient privacy, focusing on issues of testimonial injustice.

Amanda Sears is a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. She holds an MA in Philosophy, specializing in bioethics, from McGill University. Her research investigates the intersection of healthcare practices, ethics, and epistemic injustice, with a focus on how these factors shape patient experiences and health outcomes.