Decision making
Don’t Take an Ethicist to an Auction
Here on Bainbridge Island, the most anticipated event of the year is the annual Rotary Auction and Rummage Sale (RARS). ...
Subject: Decision making
Decision making
It’s Never Too Early to Look Death in the Eye
The top 3 leading causes of death in young adults in the US in recent years have been sudden deaths: injury, suicid...
Decision making, Editorial-AJOB
The ECMO Bridge and 5 Paths
This editorial appears in the June 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Childress and coauthors present a cas...
Decision making, Pediatrics
Optimizing Decision-Making in the Gray Zone at Birth
This editorial can be found here in the November 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. A provocative Target A...
Decision making, Editorial-AJOB
Editorial: Time Is Short, Social Relations Are Complex: Bioethics as Typology Industry
Perhaps the central focus of American bioethics has been to push against medical paternalism on the grounds that it impe...
Decision making, Pediatrics, Race
The #MedTwitter War: How a Tweet About Advocacy Pitted One Specialty Against Another
by Erin King-Mullins, MD, FACS, FASCRS I decided to tweet about my daughter’s trip to the ER to highlight dispariti...
Conflict of Interest, Cultural, Decision making, Gender Disparities, Justice, Media, Psychiatric Ethics
#FreeBritney: Autonomy, Conservatorships, and Mental Health in America
By Jennifer L Young, PhD, Julia E H Brown, PhD, Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD In a small but significant change ...
Clinical Trials & Studies, COVID-19 pandemic, Decision making, Global Ethics, Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines
AstaZeneca’s Vaccine Ethical Problem
Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD In The New York Times, almost overlooked amidst multiple arti...
COVID-19 pandemic, Decision making, Public Health, Vaccines
Lessons to Learn From The Slow Vaccine Rollout
by Arthur Caplan, PhD There is general agreement that the rollout of vaccines in the United States has been a dismal fai...
Decision making, Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Public Health
Needs to Prepare for “Post-COVID-19 Syndrome”
This post will appear as an editorial in a future issue of the American Journal of Bioethics by Robert Klitzman, MD Whil...
Decision making, Public Health
From Ventilators to Vaccines: Reframing the Ethics of Resource Allocation
by R. Thomas Day, Bradley S. Guidry, Brian C. Drolet, Ellen W. Clayton The United States has never experienced the grim ...
Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Public Health
Forgotten Communities: What Bioethics Should Learn from COVID-19
by Thomas D. Harter, PhD, Mary E. Homan, DrPH, MA, MSHCE COVID-19’s emergence in the US has once again thrust the field ...