Even with federal health care policies in flux under President Donald Trump’s administration, the Affordable Care Act’s accessible treatment protections remain in place. For doctors, administrators and patients, the challenge lies in how to put those rights into practice inside hospitals.

Anna Kirkland, professor of women’s and gender studies, discussed how civil rights are upheld in health care settings in a lecture Monday evening. The event, hosted in Tisch Hall by the University of Michigan’s Science, Technology, and Society Program , was the first in a series of lectures organized by Joy Rohde, public policy and history professor, and Cara Rock-Singer, assistant professor of Judaic studies.

Kirkland drew from her newly published book, “ Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimina

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