Fridays at Newcomb: Daughters and Domestics: Examining our reliance on gendered and racialized labor in the medical workplace — LaTonya Trotter

LaTonya J. Trotter is an Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities within the University of
Washington’s (UW) School of Medicine and is an affiliate investigator at the UW Center for Health
Workforce Studies. As a sociologist and bioethicist, she takes an institutional view of ethics by
considering how social and workplace institutions shape notions of responsibility and what constitutes
“good” or ethical decisions by both health care professionals and lay providers of care. She takes up
these and other questions in her award-winning book, More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the
Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State (2020). Her work has
received awards sponsored by the American Public Health Association, the British Sociological
Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the American Sociological Association.