Ethics, Pedagogy
Updating the Canon: The Story of Henrietta Lacks Is Not Over
Three cases appear in almost every bioethics course: the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the death of Jesse Gelsinger, and the ...
Subject: Editor's pick
Ethics, Research Ethics, Social Justice
Open Science, Counterscience, and the Limits of Trust
A recent New York Times investigative report by Mike McIntire describes how genetic and brain imaging data from thousand...
Professional Ethics, Professionalism
How to Write a Winning Normative Bioethics Paper: Lessons from an Editor and Author
Normative bioethics writing can be deceptively hard; what feels like a sharp argument to you might read as unclear, unde...
Artificial Intelligence, Pedagogy
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...
BioethicsTV, neurodiversity
Getting it Right: “The Pitt’s” Depiction of 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...
Bioethics Films, Disability Studies
‘Tell Them You Love Me’ is Shamefully Ableist: Stop Sensationalizing the Rape ...
In 2015, an exposé in The New York Times Magazine brought national attention to Anna Stubblefield’s sexual assault trial...
Clinical Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, Drugs, Editorial-AJOB
The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelics Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement
The first Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) workshop convened to discuss ethical matters relating to psychedelics...
We Are Not Okay: Moral Injury And a World on Fire
The following editorial can be found in the April 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. After giving the name...
Reproductive Ethics
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 f...
Drugs
To ‘Shroom or not to ‘Shroom?: Lopsided Research And Policy Within Psychedelics Increases ...
Whether due to industry pressure, media hype, or a sense of optimism over a handful of recent clinical trials, the FDA m...
Abortion
Doctoring Dobbs: On the Art and Ethics of Erasing Abortion Law
It has been one year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling ended federally protected a...
Informed Consent
Risking Death over Debt:The Moral Distress of EMTs Treating Patients Afraid of Medical Bil...
In the USA, some patients in emergency situations refuse treatment because they’re scared of medical bills. Even if they...