Northwestern U loses second faculty member over alleged censorship of medical school journal

Inside Higher Ed: A second faculty member has resigned from Northwestern University over its medical school’s reaction to a provocative article published in a faculty journal.

“It’s so petty -- that’s what I kept saying -- it’s a frickin’ blow job in 1978,” said Alice Dreger, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern who gave her notice this week over the alleged ongoing censorship of the peer-reviewed university medical humanities faculty journal Atrium, which has suspended publication after a funding cut.

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