Medical AI: A Space For Bioethicists and Policymakers to Collaborate
With the implementation of Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,...
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In Memoriam: George Annas: Unwavering Defender of Human Rights
George Annas, who died on May 31st after a brief illness at the age of 79, was a friend, a mentor and, as is rare in my ...
The Cass Review: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Background The correct ap...
Courageous Providers, Principled Institutions, and Threats to Gender-Affirming Care
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. As of early March 2025, 6...
4 Black Grandparents and No Disabled Parents: How Social Media Builds Support for Eugenics...
It started with Beyoncé Bowl. The megastar’s Christmas halftime performance captivated content across media platforms du...
What Should Have Happened in the Tragic Case of Adriana Smith?
What should have happened in the tragic case of Adriana Smith, the two-months-pregnant woman who was declared brain dead...
The Adriana Smith Case Unfolding in Atlanta Raises Many Questions
The widely discussed Adriana Smith case unfolding in Atlanta raises many thorny ethical questions. Despite the case’s hi...
Getting it Right: “The Pitt’s” Depiction of Neurodiversity
A decade ago, we wrote an AJOB blog post critiquing the then-new medical drama Chicago Med. We took the pilot to task fo...
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
This editorial appears in the May 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. As the “bio” in “bioethics” suggests...
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassio...
This editorial appears in the May 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Medical aid in dying (MAID...
A Pioneering Industry-Academia Collaboration Celebrates 10 Years
In May 2015, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School o...
The Community Becomes the Ethics Committee
In my roles at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), I often find myself bridging two worlds: the academic and the ...
Top read essays
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...