Scholars@Duke
Wylin Dassie Wilson

Wylin Dassie Wilson

Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics
Divinity School

Selected Publications

Identifying Facilitators and Barriers to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Visitation in Mothers of Low Socioeconomic Status: A Qualitative Investigation

Journal Article Children · November 1, 2024 Background/Objectives: The experience of parenting in a highly medicalized, unnatural environment can result in impaired mother–infant bonding, but increased maternal presence at the infant’s bedside has been associated with improved infant and maternal ou ... Full text Cite

Sociodemographic characteristics of maternal presence in neonatal intensive care: an intersectional analysis

Journal Article Journal of Perinatology · January 1, 2024 Objective: Maternal presence in the Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) supports infant and maternal health, yet mothers face visitation challenges. Based on intersectionality theory, we hypothesized that mothers of Black infants with lower socioeconomic status ... Full text Cite

Framework for Ethical Community Engagement (ECE) with Underserved Populations in the Rural South: A Help for Bioethics and Healthcare Promotion.

Journal Article Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · January 2019 Mainstream bioethics has dealt inadequately with issues of race, gender, and class that intersect and shape the life experiences of vulnerable populations in the U.S., such as Black women in the rural South who have faced bioethical and public health chall ... Full text Cite

Economic ethics & the black church

Book · September 7, 2017 This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church. The book features unheard voices of individuals experiencing economic deprivation and the faith communities who serve as their refuge. Thus, this project exa ... Full text Cite

Integrative Bioethics is a Bridge-Builder Worth Considering to Get Desired Results.

Journal Article The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · September 2017 Full text Cite

Addressing the Legacy of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: Optimal Health in Health Care Reform Philosophy

Journal Article Ethics and Behavior · November 1, 2012 This article is guided by principles and practices of bioethics and public health ethics focused on health care reform within the context of promoting Optimal Health. The Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care is movi ... Full text Cite