End of Life Care, Health Regulation & Law
Addressing Two Key Ethical Concerns in the UK to Ensure a Dignified Assisted Death
On 29 November 2024, a majority of the UK Parliament backed the Assisted Dying Bill in a vote described by some in the m...
Subject: Health Regulation & Law
Abortion, Conflict of Interest, Health Regulation & Law, Reproductive Ethics
The US Needs Confidential Birth
The coin was severed into two pieces, each with a puncture hole. The parents threaded string through one of the halves a...
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 ...
Drugs, Health Regulation & Law
Insulin Price Controls, Who Falls Through the Gaps?
In the United States, 6 million people take insulin to control their type 2 diabetes. In recent years, the high price of...
Clinical Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, LGBTQ ethics
Reflections for Pride Month: Gender and Sexual Health Liberation in 2024
Pride is a time for joyous celebration. It’s a time to be in community with friends, watch parades, and dance. It also i...
Cultural, Ethics, Global Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Professional Ethics
The Gaza Conflict and its Bioethical Challenges: Rethinking Physicians as Automatic Moral ...
As the human tragedy unfolds in Gaza and the surrounding region, characterized by unparalleled levels of destruction and...
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...
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...
Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
Why I’m Not Backing Down From Fighting for Our Right to Abortion
On the morning of Friday, June 24, 2022, over half of the population of the United States was stripped of a fundamental ...
Health Regulation & Law
Betrayal of Trust: The Death of Privacy in the Supreme Court in “Dobbs”
When a draft opinion in Dobbs was leaked it was termed a “betrayal of trust.” But the betrayal is not of the Court’s rul...
Children/Adolescents, Health Regulation & Law, Policy
The Costs of Creation: A Review of “Birth Rights and Wrongs,” by Dov Fox
Don’t be afraid to play god or others will do it, and they will be unjust. Dov Fox’s book, Birth Rights and Wrongs...
COVID-19 pandemic, Cultural, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Justice, Public Health, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations
Hey Siri, How Do I Say “Appendicitis” in Hungarian?
by Vincent LaBarca, DNP, NP-C Back in 2017, before Americans were considered a biohazard due to the country’s poor...