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Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025), by Stephen Scher of Harvard Medical School and Kasia Kozl...
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No surprise: RFK Jr will find some nonsensical reason to link autism to vaccines
At his confirmation hearing to be the 26th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Ken...
Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Are Morally Wrong
There is a powerful political movement in this country to prevent transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming car...
Should Adolescents Be Included in Clinical Psychedelic Research?
Clinical psychedelic research has surged globally in the past decade, with dozens of trials investigating psilocybin and...
The Elimination of Mandated Vaccines in Florida Means an Elimination of Global Immunity
On September 3rd, 2025, the state of Florida announced plans to eliminate all mandated vaccines, including those require...
Psychiatric Advance Directives as an Instrument for Care and Justice
Over fifty years ago, Luis Kutner, the progenitor of medical advance care planning, introduced a then radical idea: that...
The Grey Matters
This editorial appears in the September 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics As much as humans year...
‘Death’ is Like ‘Health’
This editorial appears in the September 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics In the Spring of 2024 ...
The Dark Side of Wearables: A Potential Fertility Surveillance Network
While there is an abundance of literature noting the risks of period tracking apps in jurisdictions with strict abortion...
Content Moderation as a Public Health Concern: When LGBTQ+ People Are Harmed Online
As a bioethicist, what comes to mind when you hear “public health”? Maybe you think of the COVID pandemic or an HIV outb...
On Kinship and Bioethical Interdependence
We are related, you and I. According to genealogical analysis, the likelihood that we have recent common ancestors is si...
Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
This editorial appears in the August 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Bioethics emerged in the...
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Resuscitating the Dead: NRP and Language
Note: The following editorial can be found in the June 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. This issue cover...
We Are Not Okay: Moral Injury And a World on Fire
The following editorial can be found in the April 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. After giving the name...
Bioethicists Call For Ceasefire in Gaza
Former American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) President Joseph Fins, MD has recently argued that bioethicis...
The ACOG Slap: In a culture that protects predators, someone was bound to snap
Content warning: This post addresses sexual assault, sexual harassment, and violence. On Saturday, May 20, 2023, at the ...
I Shouldn’t Have to be a Supercrip: Promoting Anti-Ableism and Disability Justice for Bioe...
Becoming a successful bioethics scholar is no easy feat, even for a supercrip like me. I am a supercrip, a person with d...
We Asked For Racial Equity And They Gave Us Pig Hearts
by Keisha Ray, PhD Here is a list of just some of the things that contribute to Black people’s inequitable access to pro...
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Who Deserves Ozempic?
There isn’t enough Ozempic for everyone who wants it. People with health conditions like type 2 dia...
‘Tell Them You Love Me’ is Shamefully Ableist: Stop Sensationalizing the Rape ...
In 2015, an exposé in The New York Times Magazine brought national attention to Anna Stubblefield’s sexual assault trial...
The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelics Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement
The first Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) workshop convened to discuss ethical matters relating to psychedelics...
Resuscitating the Dead: NRP and Language
Note: The following editorial can be found in the June 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. This issue cover...
We Are Not Okay: Moral Injury And a World on Fire
The following editorial can be found in the April 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. After giving the name...
Disability, Gratitude & Interdependence
It’s November and I am grateful. Everyone has some reason to be grateful, even if those reasons aren’t distributed fairl...
Coercive Sterilization Isn’t A Matter of the Past: A Call to Action for Medical Providers...
Reproductive coercion is alive and well in the United States, violently robbing women of their ability to build f...
To ‘Shroom or not to ‘Shroom?: Lopsided Research And Policy Within Psychedelics Increases ...
Whether due to industry pressure, media hype, or a sense of optimism over a handful of recent clinical trials, the FDA m...
Doctoring Dobbs: On the Art and Ethics of Erasing Abortion Law
It has been one year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling ended federally protected a...
Risking Death over Debt:The Moral Distress of EMTs Treating Patients Afraid of Medical Bil...
In the USA, some patients in emergency situations refuse treatment because they’re scared of medical bills. Even if they...
Does Our Organ Transplant System Exploit Undocumented Immigrants?
“Be careful when you travel, or you might wake up in a bathtub missing a kidney!” Many of us have heard some variation o...
They Won’t Call It Rape If He Was Trying To Help Me: Western Medicine And Rape Culture
Content warning: sexual assault, rape When I was six years old, my dad, who was at the time training to be a medical doc...