COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and Societal Stupidity
Unlike its SARS-CoV-1 predecessor a decade prior, SARS-CoV-2—frequently called COVID-19 to lessen alarm—has been an on-g...
Subject: COVID-19 pandemic
Clinical Ethics, COVID-19 pandemic, Editorial-AJOB, Professionalism
Ethical Considerations for the Just Utilization of House Staff During the Covid-19 Pandemi...
The following is an editorial in the American Journal of Bioethics, March 2022 issue. It can be found here: ht...
COVID-19 pandemic
Bioethics Resources for COVID-19
Clinical Ethics, COVID-19 pandemic, Vaccines
Vaccination Mandates, Physically Forced Vaccination, and Rationing in the Intensive Care U...
The following is an editorial that can be found in a future issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Background Vacci...
COVID-19 pandemic, Media
Celebrities, Misinformation, Disinformation, and Media Responsibility
Rivaled only in recent times by the AIDS epidemic, COVID has been a dividing force world-wide. It has been a politicized...
COVID-19 pandemic, Cultural, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Public Health, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations
Hey Siri, How Do I Say “Appendicitis” in Hungarian?
by Vincent LaBarca, DNP, NP-C Back in 2017, before Americans were considered a biohazard due to the country’s poor...
COVID-19 pandemic, Public Health, Vaccines
Bioethicists Respond: “Now That The Pfizer Vaccine Has Full FDA Approval, What Does ...
In this series, we ask bioethicists to respond to a question that embodies current challenges for bioethics, medicine, o...
Clinical Ethics, COVID-19 pandemic, Health Disparities, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations
Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic
By George J. Annas and Sondra S. Crosby This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics...
COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics, Vaccines
College Vaccination Mandates do not Violate Medical Ethics
by Nathan Nobis PhD In a June 14, 2021 opinion essay in the Wall Street Journal, physician-ethicist Aaron Kheriaty and l...
COVID-19 pandemic, Environmental Ethics, Ethics, Informed Consent, Justice
Environmental Toxins Are a Threat to Informed Consent and Justice. How is Bioethics Going ...
by Keisha Ray PhD and Jane Cooper MBE One of the inequities to come out of the Covid-19 pandemic is an increase in the d...
COVID-19 pandemic, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Politics, Public Health, Social Justice
COVID-19 Proved That Americans With Disabilities Need Biden’s Infrastructure Plan. Lawmak...
By Clayton Jones, LCDR, CHC, USN, Kevin Mintz, PhD, Andrew Peterson, PhD America is winning the battle against COVI...
COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics, Global Ethics, Pediatrics, Vaccines
Juvenile Justice: Why It Is Ethical to Vaccinate Our Children Now
by Kyle Ferguson, Ph.D., and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. On May 10, 2021, the F.D.A. authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus...