Self-Sourced Medication Abortion, Physician Authority, and the Contradictions of Abortion Care

Jennifer Karlin is an MD PhD family physician, fellowship-trained family planning specialist, and anthropologist whose research aims to understand how social, political, and institutional structures affect people's experiences with diagnosis, treatment, and health care. Her publications approach a range of topics from a biopsychosocial model to address how health care can be delivered in ways that are person-centered and empowering with a focus on reproductive and sexual health, end stage renal disease, and chronic illnesses including autoimmune disorders.

jkarlin@ucdavis.edu

Carole Joffe is a professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the U. of California, San Francisco, and a professor of sociology emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion provision. Her most recent book (with David S. Cohen) is Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to get an Abortion in America, published by the University of California Press.). Her current research addresses the responses of abortion providers to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

carole.joffe@ucsf.edu