Subject: Editor's pick

Professional Ethics, Professionalism

Normative bioethics writing can be deceptively hard; what feels like a sharp argument to you might read as unclear, unde...

November 18, 2025

Artificial Intelligence, Pedagogy

Medical education has always relied on simulators. From wooden mannequins in the 17th century to the digital cadavers of...

October 28, 2025

Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Politics

Do Not Pervert Justice. ...

July 5, 2025

BioethicsTV, 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...

May 19, 2025

Bioethics Films, Disability Studies

In 2015, an exposé in The New York Times Magazine brought national attention to Anna Stubblefield’s sexual assault trial...

July 29, 2024

Clinical Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, Drugs, Editorial-AJOB

The first Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) workshop convened to discuss ethical matters relating to psychedelics...

July 10, 2024

Editorial-AJOB, Organ Transplant & Donation

Note: The following editorial can be found in the June 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. This issue cover...

June 10, 2024

The following editorial can be found in the April 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. After giving the name...

March 26, 2024

Disability Studies

It’s November and I am grateful. Everyone has some reason to be grateful, even if those reasons aren’t distributed fairl...

November 21, 2023

Reproductive Ethics

Reproductive coercion is alive and well in the United States, violently robbing women of their ability to build f...

September 27, 2023

Drugs

Whether due to industry pressure, media hype, or a sense of optimism over a handful of recent clinical trials, the FDA m...

August 12, 2023

Abortion

It has been one year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling ended federally protected a...

June 30, 2023