Disability Studies, Justice
The Slippery Slope of the DOJ Slip Opinion: A Threat to Disability Integration
“Because the country was so inaccessible, disabled people had a hard time getting out and doing things—which made us inv...
Subject: Justice
Clinical Ethics, Justice
Beyond Good Intentions: Structural Justice and the Future of Hospital-based Violence Inter...
Black Americans experience nonfatal firearm assault at a rate more than 20 times that of White Americans. For Black men,...
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...
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...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Justice, Politics, Social Justice
Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
This editorial appears in the August 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Bioethics emerged in the...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Editorial-AJOB, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Justice, Research Ethics
Pursuing Fair and Just Compensation for Research Participants: An Open Letter to the Resea...
This editorial appears in the July 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. A cornerstone of modern research et...
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...
Justice
The Retrievals, Episode 3: The Sentence
Welcome back to my analysis of The Retrievals – a podcast about women’s pain from This American Life and The New Y...
Health Policy & Insurance, Justice
The Misguided Conversation around Medical Crowdfunding
Heartbreak. Outrage. Urgency. These emotions describe what 22,292 people may have felt over five days in 2019 when they ...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Disparities, Justice, Social Justice
Editorial: Disability, Aging, and the Importance of Recognizing Social Supports in Medical...
By Kevin Mintz, PhD and David Magnus, PhD Note: The following editorial was recently published in the American Journal o...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Cultural, Editorial-AJOB, Health Disparities, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Justice, Research Ethics, Social Justice
Beyond the Belmont Report
by Wamia Siddiqui, BS and Richard R. Sharp, PhD The following blog is an editorial found from the Am...
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...