Gun violence, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance
Guns, Insurance, and the Political Determinants of Health
In the United States, where gun controls are far too few and unchecked guns are generally okay, even celebrated, such po...
Subject: Health Care
Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Public Health
Death of a Healthcare CEO: Physical Violence, Structural Violence and Social (In)justice
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results ...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Psychiatric Ethics
Coercion, Power Relations, and the Expectations Patients Bring to Mental Health Treatment
This editorial appears in the December 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. When does an interaction between...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Psychiatric Ethics
Context Matters
This editorial appears in the December 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Hempeler et al.’s focus on ...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law
Making a Case for Appropriate and Humane Treatment of Hamas Belligerents in Israel
This editorial can be found in the February 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Three thousand belligerents...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Health Disparities, Public Health
Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, a...
This editorial can be found in the February 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Once anesthetized, patients...
Ethics, Health Care
Patient Advocacy in Practice
I was in a meeting recently, and a colleague discussed his conversation with a researcher. The researcher voiced his con...
Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
AI Health Enthusiasts Often Dream of Electric Sheep, But Do Bioethicists Dream of Electrif...
Recently the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, sat in conversation for just a little over 20 minutes...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Care
Spheres of Morality: Is There a Point?
This editorial can be found in the December 2023 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Since physicians began to fo...
Health Care, Policy, Politics, Public Health
Bioethicists Call For Ceasefire in Gaza
Former American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) President Joseph Fins, MD has recently argued that bioethicis...
Drugs, Health Care
Rising Cost of Cancer Care: Perspectives & Consequences
In January 2023, we have seen biotech layoff a small percentage of their workforce citing “pressure on drug price and in...
Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law
Will There Ever Be a Right to Health in the U.S.?
Interacting with the American healthcare system often results in a familiar scenario for many families. A doctor prescri...