Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
Personhood, When Convenient?
In early August, an Alaska woman named McKenna West was serving as a gestational surrogate for a Los Angeles couple when...
Subject: Policy
Clinical Ethics, In the News, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
In The News…A Surrogate, Parents, and Politics: Clearing up the Ethics of Surrogacy ...
This essay is a part of our “In the News…” series, where bioethicists give their take on popular news ...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Genetics, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Public Health
Whose Values Define Value? Procedural Justice and the Personal Utility of Clinical Genomic...
This editorial appears in the May Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics The recent increases in the number of perso...
Policy, Psychedelics
Evaluating the Price of Oregon’s Psilocybin Services: Finding the Right Comparison
Oregon’s psilocybin services are often described as quite expensive in both media coverage and academic discussions. How...
Policy, Research Ethics
Can Researchers Experience Moral Distress?
In the context of healthcare, moral distress has traditionally described the emotional and psychological distress health...
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...
Global Ethics, Policy, Politics, Vulnerable Populations
An Open Letter to the American Red Cross and the International Red Cross: Calling for Imme...
February 27, 2026 The death of an immigrant detainee at an El Paso, Texas facility has been ruled a homicide, according ...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Public Health
Citation Accuracy in the Make America Healthy Again Report (MAHA)
This editorial appears in the March Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics ncreasing attention has been devoted to q...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Public Health
When ICE Brings You the Patient … Hospitals Must Stop Victimizing Forensic Patients
This editorial appears in the March Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics The recent increases in the number of per...
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 ...
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Policy
Bridging the Gap: Consensus-Based Considerations for AI Usefulness in Healthcare
This editorial appears in the February Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Despite significant promise in prelimi...
Decision making, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Organ Transplant & Donation, Policy
AOOS Reflects an Opportunity for Better, Inclusive, Policy-Making
This editorial appears in the January Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Courtwright’s target article rightly re...