As missions venture to more distant places or require a longer, sustained human presence, astronauts are exposed to a variety of physiological stressors and face extreme challenges to mental health. The circumstances of space voyages in extended deep space missions, such as round-trip missions to Mars lasting approximately 2.5 years, will increase feelings of isolation […]

January 14, 2026

Confusion and Conscientious Objection in Arizona

by Steven H. Miles, MD and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. Nicole Mone Arteaga was trying to get pregnant. It had been difficult for her. She had a miscarriage. Then, unexpectedly, she got pregnant again. Because of her miscarriage history, she cooperated with weekly medical monitoring, On June 19th, she was told, according to news interviews, that […]

July 1, 2018

Mainstream and Conservative: Different Flavors of Bioethics

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. As part of my Bioethics in Society: Critical Studies of Bioethics course, students have noticed a divide in bioethics writing between what we are calling mainstream bioethics and conservative bioethics. A The former group centers around the idea of multidisciplinarity, an openness to considering varied viewpoints, and a belief that bioethics […]

March 7, 2018

New Graphic Medicine at AJOB

by Eric S. Swirsky, JD, MA It is my privilege to introduce the health humanities community to the work of biomedical visualization students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, whose work will be featured as cover art in forthcoming issues of AJOB. These students receive interdisciplinary training to become highly skilled medical and scientific […]

January 12, 2018