In the United States, where gun controls are far too few and unchecked guns are generally okay, even celebrated, such political determinants of health have constantly terrible impacts. Guns have one purpose: to kill. Such political determinants of health have determined that anyone can be shot dead or injured with a gun at any point […]
The global bioweapons regime stands at a pivotal point where collaboration or conflict can determine the future of bioethical standards and international security. A recent sign pointing toward conflict is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Biotechnology and Human Enhancement Technologies Strategy, which singles Russia as a bad actor. Such an approach not only risks […]
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.” -Martin Luther King In a busy week of news that featured President Biden pardoning his son Hunter, the temporary declaration of martial law in South Korea, and the fall of the […]
This editorial appears in the December 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. When does an interaction between a mental health clinician and a patient cross the line from a reasonable offer of care to coercion? In a classic account of coercion in psychiatry, Szmukler and Appelbaum build from Wertheimer’s theory of coercion to propose that […]
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