Clinical Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, Decision making
A Pioneering Industry-Academia Collaboration Celebrates 10 Years
In May 2015, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School o...
Subject: Clinical Ethics
Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Health Care
The Community Becomes the Ethics Committee
In my roles at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), I often find myself bridging two worlds: the academic and the ...
Clinical Ethics, COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics
Is Wearing a Face Mask Performative?
Sometimes, those wearing face masks, such as surgical masks or N95 respirators, are asked whether their doing so is perf...
Clinical Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, Organ Transplant & Donation
Save the Pigs: An Argument Against Xenotransplantation (For Now)
In December 2024 surgeons at New York University reported on the third case of a kidney from a gene-edited pig being tra...
Clinical Ethics, End of Life Care
Montana SB 136 and the Future of Physician Assisted Suicide in the U.S.
On February 3, the Montana Senate passed Senate Bill 136, which would modify Montana state law so physicians cannot use ...
Clinical Ethics, Cultural
Safeguarding Humanism in Healthcare: No Space for Antisemitism in Medicine
Humanism in medicine is an essential component of quality healthcare. Humanistic healthcare is rooted in kindness, safet...
Clinical Ethics, Health Care
Understanding Patients’ Voices: Patient-Centred Measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dia...
Patient-centred measurement examines constructs that are not visible outside a patient’s perspective: quality of life, h...
Clinical Ethics, Decision making, End of Life Care
Moral and Practical Considerations in the Debate on Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Termin...
A controversial Bill, titled Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, was recently proposed in England. The primary aim...
Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Ethics
Clinical Decision Support Systems: Pop-ups And Prescribing Practices
Clinicians increasingly rely on AI-driven clinical decision support systems. One important facet of decision support sys...
Abortion, Clinical Ethics
Are Embryos “Babies” and “Children”?
Anti-abortion advocates frequently insist that abortion is “killing babies” and “murdering children.” “Heartbeat” bills,...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, LGBTQ ethics
Banning Puberty-Pausing Medications Endangers Transgender Adolescents
This editorial can be found in the August 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics As we’ve seen with the anti-ab...
Clinical Ethics, Disability Studies, Editorial-AJOB
Beyond Supported Decision-Making: The Need for Supported Engagement for Neurodivergent Adu...
This editorial can be found in the August 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Various social movements of th...