AJOB Volume 19, Issue 12
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The Case for Equal Protection for ALL Children Against Forced Genital Cutting is Moving Forward, Full Speed Ahead
Hadachek et. al. vs. The State of Oregon (Case No. 25CV128224), the first case of its kind, challenges the constitutionality of Oregon’s anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) laws. Plaintiffs claim the current anti-FGM laws violate the state’s Equal Protection Clause and Equal Rights Amendment by providing protection against forced genital cutting for female children, but not […]
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 today, physicians have long used different tools to practice care without consequence. But virtual reality (VR) changes the moral equation. When a headset can recreate the tremor of an elderly hand, the panic of an asthma […]
Building Consensus for Responsible AI in Healthcare
This editorial appears in the October 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Although AI in healthcare depends on collaboration across disciplines, those involved in its development and implementation can operate in silos, having limited insight into one another’s practices. A shared framework is therefore important for harmonizing best practices across a growing range of specialties, […]
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 existence as a distinctive field of scholarship and practice, bioethics has arguably entered a phase in which it can be characterized as an “emerging moral tradition” and is at a point in its development where inadequacies are identified and […]