Philosophy & Ethics, Professional Ethics
On Kinship and Bioethical Interdependence
We are related, you and I. According to genealogical analysis, the likelihood that we have recent common ancestors is si...
Subject: Philosophy & Ethics
Disability Studies, Editorial-AJOB, End of Life Care, Ethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Policy
Suffering Is Not Useless
This editorial appears in the August 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Echoing Ruth Macklin’s classic ess...
Abortion, End of Life Care, Health Regulation & Law, Philosophy & Ethics, Policy, Politics
What Should Have Happened in the Tragic Case of Adriana Smith?
What should have happened in the tragic case of Adriana Smith, the two-months-pregnant woman who was declared brain dead...
Editorial-AJOB, Global Ethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
This editorial appears in the May 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. As the “bio” in “bioethics” suggests...
Gender Disparities, LGBTQ ethics, Philosophy & Ethics
True Trans Bioethics Centers Trans Experience
I am a transgender person researching transgender data justice in healthcare. I actively look for presentations surround...
Abortion, Philosophy & Ethics
Following All The Facts About Abortion—Scientific, Ethical, And Logical—Wherever They Lead...
In a recent column, “Faith, science and the abortion debate: Do abortion rights advocates follow the facts, wherever the...
Philosophy & Ethics
A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found Elsewh...
The following editorial can be found in our December 2022 issue. This month’s Target Article by Blumenthal-Barby et ...
Cultural, Education, Medical Humanities, Philosophy & Ethics, Race, Science, Social Justice
The Folly of Apolitical Science
By Johnathan Flowers, PhD A persistent myth in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Medicine) fields argues that sci...
Conflict of Interest, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Philosophy & Ethics, Public Health, Vaccines
The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated: John Stuart Mill and Mandates
By Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD John Stuart Mill proclaimed, “Over himself, over his own body and mi...
Philosophy & Ethics
Cognitive Transformation, Dementia, and the Moral Weight of Advance Directives
Abstract Dementia patients in the moderate-late stage of the disease can, and often do, express different preferences th...
Publish date:Ethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Public Health
The Cult of Autonomy and Why Bioethics Needs to Become More Communal
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the mythology of the founding of bioethics, we learn that this nascent field sprang whole fro...
Health Disparities, Justice, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics, Social Justice
Where Have All the Bioethicists Gone?
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. “What can bioethics do to help with the racial injustice” is a refrain that I wish I heard more ...