Vagueness of language, unarticulated assumptions, and maintaining the status quo. With Amy Katz and Melody Morton Ninomiya

This is a conversation we've been sitting with for many weeks, thinking hard about how to present it. We spoke to our guests with the idea we would simply talk about the paper they co-authored... and we did... but we also ventured into spaces we didn't anticipate! Although they are not from the patient engagement world, Amy and Melody's research and insights cast a different sort of light on engagement activities. Hosts Jennifer and Emily think through ideas of power, obfuscation, accountability, and whether we're all just spinning our wheels...by design. 

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Vagueness, Power and Public Health: Use of ‘Vulnerable’ in Public Health Literature
• La Langue de Coton: How Neoliberal Language Pulls the Wool over Faculty Governance
• Bringing stakeholders together for urban health equity: hallmarks of a compromised process

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