Clinical Ethics, Health Care
Healthcare Is Not the Same as Care
A healthcare system can perform well without always caring, well. Safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity are legi...
Subject: Health Care
Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
From Aquaphor to Alcohol: Can Overreliance on AI Lead to a Decline in Human Connection Wit...
When the doctor’s note from my daughter’s wellness visit to the hospital was posted on our patient portal, I discovered ...
Health Care, Public Health
Beyond Transparency: Why Bioethics Must Move Toward Public Enrolment
Bioethicists have become very good at arguing for transparency. We encourage institutions to disclose conflicts of inter...
Decision making, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Psychiatric Ethics
Individual Planning Is Not Enough: Dementia Directives and the Governance Challenge
A dementia directive — sometimes called an advance directive or living will — is a document in which a person, while sti...
Drugs, Health Care, Justice, Philosophy & Ethics, Public Health
Ozempic, Coerced Weight-Loss, and Threats to Rationality
Over the last four years, GLP-1 agonists such as Ozempic, touted by many as miracle weight-loss drugs and popularized by...
Clinical Ethics, Ethics, Health Care, Pediatrics, Policy
Why Bioethics Matters in the Debate Over Routine Infant Circumcision
Bioethics exists to help us think clearly about difficult medical decisions, especially when those decisions affect indi...
Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Research Ethics
The Promises and Challenges for Ethical Carebots
Our research team has recently completed a pilot study with groups of older adults (N=11) and family care partners (N=9)...
Assisted Death, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, Justice
My Great Aunt Had a Choice. Bill 18 Threatens That for Others.
My great-aunt chose medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Alberta, Canada. It was sad – all death is – but i...
Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
AI, Informed Consent, and Fallacious Reasoning
In an effort to justify the growing landscape of AI use in healthcare, there have been countless studies and empirical a...
Children/Adolescents, Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Ethics, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, LGBTQ ethics, Pediatrics, Policy, Politics
HHS Report on Pediatric Gender Affirming Care and CMS Proposed Threat to Medicaid Funding ...
The Department of Health and Human Services released the report, The Treatment of Pediatric Gender Dysphoria (herein ...
Clinical Ethics, Health Care, Reproductive Ethics
Responding to Women’s Pain Demands Structural Change
It’s an unfortunate reality that in medical contexts, women’s pain continues to be ignored, overlooked, or treated as an...
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, Policy
Building Consensus for Responsible AI in Healthcare
This editorial appears in the October 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Although AI in healthcar...