This editorial appears in the September 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics As much as humans yearn for definitive right answers and obvious distinctions between right and wrong, very little in life is black and white. Intolerance of uncertainty and need for cognitive closure often leads us to construct and then defend artificial certainty that […]
A decade ago, we wrote an AJOB blog post critiquing the then-new medical drama Chicago Med. We took the pilot to task for its lack of verisimilitude, despite the myriad ethical issues highlighted in that episode. We watched the show with some regularity for a few seasons but eventually lost interest as the show veered […]
Author, Veljko Dubljević, PhD (NC State University) will be the new Editor in Chief of American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience, beginning February 1, 2023. Neuroethics has come of age. Since it’s conception in 2002 (Roskies 2002), Neuroethics has passed many developmental stages and milestones, and has rightfully reached full maturity at the time of […]
by Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD; Laura Y. Cabrera, PhD and Timothy E. Brown, PhD The novelist Arundhati Roy wrote that, historically, pandemics force humans to break with the past — that this pandemic is a portal through which we could walk “ready to imagine another world.” The Covid-19 pandemic provides a moment of reckoning, starkly illuminating societal […]
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