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...
Children/Adolescents, Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Ethics, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, LGBTQ ethics, Pediatrics, Policy, Politics
HHS Report on Pediatric Gender Affirming Care and CMS Proposed Threat to Medicaid Funding ...
The Department of Health and Human Services released the report, The Treatment of Pediatric Gender Dysphoria (herein ...
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...
Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Politics
Do Not Pervert Justice
Do Not Pervert Justice. ...
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...
Editorial-AJOB, Organ Transplant & Donation
Resuscitating the Dead: NRP and Language
Note: The following editorial can be found in the June 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. This issue cover...
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...
Disability Studies
Disability, Gratitude & Interdependence
It’s November and I am grateful. Everyone has some reason to be grateful, even if those reasons aren’t distributed fairl...