Subject: Editor's pick

Editorial-AJOB

The two following editorials appear in the April 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Qatar’s Bioethics Meet...

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

Children/Adolescents

Over three thousand children have been killed in the first 25 days of the Palestine-Israel conflict, with one child...

November 2, 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

Aging

My mother died last week. She spent two weeks in an assisted living facility in Florida and then I brought her home. Thi...

September 13, 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

Informed Consent

In the USA, some patients in emergency situations refuse treatment because they’re scared of medical bills. Even if they...

June 23, 2023

Organ Transplant & Donation

“Be careful when you travel, or you might wake up in a bathtub missing a kidney!” Many of us have heard some variation o...

May 18, 2023

During a raging pandemic with a brand-new virus, influential doctors from prominent universities advocated for the mass ...

May 5, 2023

Clinical Ethics, Sexual Assault

Content warning: sexual assault, rape When I was six years old, my dad, who was at the time training to be a medical doc...

January 19, 2023

Gender Disparities, Professionalism

Though this post is about sexist language, I will start with a brief foray into linguistics and philosophy of language t...

October 17, 2022