Clinical Ethics, Religion
The End of an Absolute: Jehovah’s Witnesses Reconsider Blood Product TransfusionsBlood Pro...
The September 18th, 2026, announcement from the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW) is one of the most cons...
Subject: Clinical Ethics
Aging, Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics
AI Use in Dementia Care Requires Engagement with Patient and Caregiver Perspectives
This editorial appears in the September Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Liougas et al.’s composite case study...
Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics
Informed Consent in the Age of Clinical AI: Beyond the One-Time Authorization Model
This editorial appears in the September Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Artificial intelligence (AI) is incre...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics
Beyond the Institutional Dyad: Healthcare Organizations and Their Obligations to the Commu...
This editorial appears in the September Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics In Moore et al.’s article, “What Can ...
Clinical Ethics, Health Care
Healthcare Is Not the Same as Care
A healthcare system can perform well without always caring, well. Safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity are legi...
Clinical Ethics, In the News, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
In The News…A Surrogate, Parents, and Politics: Clearing up the Ethics of Surrogacy ...
This essay is a part of our “In the News…” series, where bioethicists give their take on popular news ...
Clinical Ethics, Professional Ethics
One Letter Apart: Credential Confusion in Clinical Ethics
While looking into credentials in clinical ethics, I came across one I had never seen before: the “Certified Heal...
Clinical Ethics, Justice
Beyond Good Intentions: Structural Justice and the Future of Hospital-based Violence Inter...
Black Americans experience nonfatal firearm assault at a rate more than 20 times that of White Americans. For Black men,...
Clinical Ethics, Reproductive Ethics
How the IVF Industry Exploits Down Syndrome Anxiety to Hard Sell the Controversial PGT-A T...
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is emotionally and financially taxing, especially for women of advanced maternal age. As ma...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Pediatrics
Ashley Revisited: Reflections and Lessons Twenty Years Later
This editorial appears in the June Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Twenty years ago, Dan Gunther and I publis...
Clinical Ethics, Disability Studies, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Public Health
Caring for Autistic Adolescents: A Call for Improved Education of Clinicians and Caregiver...
This editorial appears in the May Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics In their Target Article “Inpatient Hospital...
Clinical Ethics, Ethics, Health Care, Pediatrics, Policy
Why Bioethics Matters in the Debate Over Routine Infant Circumcision
Bioethics exists to help us think clearly about difficult medical decisions, especially when those decisions affect indi...