The Orwellification of the CDC
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (George Orwell, 1984) According to the CDC w...
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Heartstrings and Hardware: Navigating the Ethics of LOVOTs in Elder Care
A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia’s IDEA Lab recently invited older adults living with dement...
How to Write a Winning Normative Bioethics Paper: Lessons from an Editor and Author
Normative bioethics writing can be deceptively hard; what feels like a sharp argument to you might read as unclear, unde...
Parental Reasons, Ethical Responses: Mapping the Debate Over Parental Reasons in Pediatric...
This editorial appears in the November 2025 Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Navigating conflict over medical ...
Substituted Judgment and Uncomfortable Truths
This editorial appears in the November 2025 Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics “What would they say, if we could...
The Case for Equal Protection for All Children Against Forced Genital Cutting is Moving Fo...
Hadachek et. al. vs. The State of Oregon (Case No. 25CV128224), the first case of its kind, challenges the constitutiona...
Virtual Reality in Medical Education: Can Empathy Become a Simulation?
Medical education has always relied on simulators. From wooden mannequins in the 17th century to the digital cadavers of...
Building Consensus for Responsible AI in Healthcare
This editorial appears in the October 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Although AI in healthcar...
The Need for Accreditation Standards for Clinical Ethics Fellowship Programs
This editorial appears in the October 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics A half-century into its ...
Revoking Pedestrian Safety Grants is a Matter of Health, Not Just Policy
The health of our society is a social determinant of health. This means that political happenings in our country that in...
Clinical Health Care Ethics: Time to Reset
Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025), by Stephen Scher of Harvard Medical School and Kasia Kozl...
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...
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America Needs a Marshall Plan for Saving the Future of Science
At the end of World War Two, most of Europe lay in ruins. The Nazis had been defeated but at a terrible price to both th...
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...
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...
A Disability Perspective on Advance Directives
After the passage of the Patient Self-determination Act of 1991, advance directives were instituted to ensure patients’ ...
Why Bioethics Needs Pride: Anti-LGBTQ Laws and Health Disparities
So far this year there have been over 300 anti-LGBTQ laws introduced in the US, already breaking last year’s recor...
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How to Write a Winning Normative Bioethics Paper: Lessons from an Editor and Author
Normative bioethics writing can be deceptively hard; what feels like a sharp argument to you might read as unclear, unde...
Virtual Reality in Medical Education: Can Empathy Become a Simulation?
Medical education has always relied on simulators. From wooden mannequins in the 17th century to the digital cadavers of...
Do Not Pervert Justice
Do Not Pervert Justice. ...
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...
‘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...