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<strong>Optimizing Decision-Making in the Gray Zone at Birth</strong>

This editorial can be found here in the November 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. A provocative Target Article in this issue of AJOB proposes a new approach to decision-making for babies born in the “gray-zone” at the margins of viability. Titled “Postponed Withholding: balanced decision-making at the margins of viability,” it addresses a well-known […]

November 8, 2022

I Attended an ASBH Meeting During a Pandemic: Am I Less of a Bioethicist?

This year, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ (ASBH) 2022 annual meeting returned to an in-person format in Portland, Oregon after the 2020 and 2021 meetings were held virtually, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The choice to return to an in-person format was met with some excitement and gratitude from some people, while others […]

November 7, 2022

All That Matters

We call them loved ones, family, when life is thriving – intimate, caring. We know them as legal guardians, when death is approaching – cold, composed. Her temperature, what is it? they ask. Eyes stare, unseeing, like bright stars, unblinking. They watch the bloated body, seeing what I cannot bury. I watch the screen, waiting, […]

November 2, 2022

Queer Heartaches and Hopes in the Classroom: An AIDS Paradigm Example

“If you got it from sleeping with a thousand guys, then it’s a judgment on your promiscuity. If you got it from sleeping with one guy once, that’s almost worse, it’s like a judgment on all of us, like the act itself is the problem and not the number of times you did it. And […]

November 1, 2022