Clinical Ethics, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals
Prescribing Ozempic and an Obligation to Lose Weight
Prescriptions of GLP-1 drugs to patients without diabetes have seen an increase of 700% since 2019. GLP-1 drugs like O...
Subject: Health Care
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Care
The Cass Review: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Background The correct ap...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Care
Courageous Providers, Principled Institutions, and Threats to Gender-Affirming Care
This editorial appears in the June 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. As of early March 2025, 6...
Abortion, End of Life Care, Ethics, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
The Adriana Smith Case Unfolding in Atlanta Raises Many Questions
The widely discussed Adriana Smith case unfolding in Atlanta raises many thorny ethical questions. Despite the case’s hi...
Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Health Care
The Community Becomes the Ethics Committee
In my roles at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), I often find myself bridging two worlds: the academic and the ...
Clinical Ethics, Health Care
Understanding Patients’ Voices: Patient-Centred Measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dia...
Patient-centred measurement examines constructs that are not visible outside a patient’s perspective: quality of life, h...
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...
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...