Cultural, Religion
The Worship of Medicine
We worship medicine. We put doctors on billboards, make statues of them, and name buildings and parks after them. We mak...
Subject: Cultural
Black Bioethics, Cultural, Politics
Eviscerating the Voting Rights Act, Black Bioethics, and the Ancestors
When I was promoted and received tenure, I received a card from another Black woman professor that said, “The ancestors ...
Cultural, Disability Studies, Ethics, Social Media
TikTok Ethics: Social Media’s Influence on Moral Values
Used by one-third of US adults and the majority of teens, the social media platform TikTok, has emerged as a hotbed for ...
Cultural, Politics, Race
Is the Recent Effort to Glorify Whole Milk Tainted by Racism?
The Federal government has launched a highly visible campaign to promote drinking whole milk. The USDA is running a R...
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...
Cultural, Global Ethics, Research Ethics
The Danger of Conflating the Russian Scientific Community with Putin’s Regime in Glo...
The global bioweapons regime stands at a pivotal point where collaboration or conflict can determine the future of bio...
Cultural, Politics
Have We Finally Amused Ourselves to Death? The Triumph of Entertainment Values over Civic ...
In early 2016, I wrote a blog for Bioethics Today (formerly bioethics.net) that examined the rise of the Trump movement ...
Cultural, Disability Studies
Confronting the Abuse of Disability Activist Language by the Maduro Administration in Vene...
In light of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s most recent dubious election victory claims, it is time for bioethicis...
Cultural, Gender Disparities, Health Disparities, Social Justice
Microaggressions And Black Maternal Health
The United States has the highest rate of death in pregnancy and childbirth. According to a 2023 report, it is one ...
Cultural, Public Health
Why Can’t we Admit Age is a (Biologically) Meaningful Number?
If there’s one phrase the June 2024 U.S. presidential debate may entirely eliminate from the English vocabulary it’s tha...
Cultural, Editorial-AJOB, Reproductive Ethics
Health Consequences of an Ideological Perspective on Population Growth in Iran
This editorial can be found in the July 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics The promise of “Independence, Fr...
Cultural, Global Ethics, Policy, Politics
University Responses to Student Protests: Anti-Principle, Anti-Ethical, and Anti-Academic
No matter your views about the chaos in the world around us, what we, as bioethicists, have been witnessing at Columbia ...