Resource - AJOB Volume 13 Number 9

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https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/13/9

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September 01, 2013

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1526-5161

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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 families. Sterilization procedures, like hysterectomies and tubal ligations, permanently prevent pregnancies. When considering sterilization, patients are entitled to be fully informed and freely consent, rather than coerced or forced. Contraception without consent violates human rights. Physicians need to […]

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Honoring Wishes, Aggressive Sales Pitches, And Evaluating The Dying Process

My mother died last week. She spent two weeks in an assisted living facility in Florida and then I brought her home. This is my own story of regret and my open questions about the ethics of the assisted living sales pitch and practices close to the end of life. My mother found herself in […]

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Psychedelic Ethics in a World “Warring With Drugs”

Along with apple pie, colonialism, and imperialism, one of America’s best-known characteristics known around the globe is its “war on drugs.” Although many other countries had and are still having their own violent and oppressive wars with drugs, and specifically people who use drugs, America is unique in that its war on drugs included domestic […]

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What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?

The following editorial can be found in the September issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Shavelson et al. raise the familiar question of parity or fairness in the assisted dying debate: if we legally permit the practice for one person, should we not permit everyone similarly situated to access it? To do otherwise seems unfair. It touches a […]

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