The purpose of this review is to describe how pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders (SUDs) experience health care encounters in prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum, and nursery/neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) settings. Findings from 23 qualitative studies on the topic were synthesized using a metasummary approach. The majority of the studies revealed that pregnant and postpartum women with SUDs tend to experience their health care encounters as conflictual, although some studies revealed that some women experience their health care encounters as supportive. The results of metasummary included a taxonomy of health care encounters. Five types of adverse encounters were identified: judgmental, disparaging, scrutinizing, disempowering, and deficient-care. Three types of beneficial encounters were identified: recovery-based, accepting, and effective-care. The findings suggest the importance of stigma awareness, therapeutic patient-provider communication, patient activation, and integrated care.

This white paper describes outcomes from a conference about using non-science art in science education. Art and science are often combined for entertainment, education (STEAM) and inspirational value. However, in almost all cases the art is science-themed (scientific visualizations, science-inspired art, art about scientific topics, etc.). This conference asks the question “what about art for arts-sake?”. That is, what is the impact of non-scientific art in science education? Can non-science themed art be used to broaden perspectives about science? Can it cue people to think about science more and differently? The conference, held at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago with support from the National Science Foundation, assembled artists, art educators, education researchers and scientists to discuss the potential of these topics and ways to study them.