Policy, Science
America Needs a Marshall Plan for Saving the Future of Science
At the end of World War Two, most of Europe lay in ruins. The Nazis had been defeated but at a terrible price to both th...
Subject: Policy
Education, Policy, Politics, Professional Ethics
How do we Mentor in This Moment?
I don’t know how to be a good mentor right now and I’m mad about it. Almost as soon as I completed my PhD I was pu...
Cultural, Global Ethics, Policy, Politics
University Responses to Student Protests: Anti-Principle, Anti-Ethical, and Anti-Academic
No matter your views about the chaos in the world around us, what we, as bioethicists, have been witnessing at Columbia ...
AI, Policy, Research Ethics
Reimagining Human Rights for the Biotechnology Age
In our rapidly advancing world, biotechnology stands at the forefront of scientific progress. From gene editing and pers...
Clinical Ethics, Cultural, Ethics, Policy, Politics
A Timely Review of Ethical Medical Practice in Israel: A Response to Accusations of Genoci...
War tests the fundamental ethical obligations of medical practice. In the middle of conflicts, it can be difficult for p...
End of Life Care, Policy
Ethical Mechanisms for Increasing Compliance with Institutional End-of-Life Policies
Over 200 million people globally have legal access to some form of aid in dying. In 2008, Washington became the second o...
Health Care, Policy, Politics, Public Health
Bioethicists Call For Ceasefire in Gaza
Former American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) President Joseph Fins, MD has recently argued that bioethicis...
Health Policy & Insurance, Policy
The Medicaid Dilemma
The ongoing struggle on how to best serve patient populations who utilize coverage offered through the Centers for Medic...
Drugs, Policy, Politics
Psychedelic Ethics in a World “Warring With Drugs”
Along with apple pie, colonialism, and imperialism, one of America’s best-known characteristics known around the globe i...
Artificial Intelligence, Policy
An AI Bill of Rights: Implications for Health Care AI and Machine Learning—A Bioethics Len...
The following editorial will be featured in an upcoming issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Just last week (Octob...
Latinx Bioethics, Policy
Report Card Time: How Has the Biden Administration Addressed the U.S. Hispanic Community’s...
Much media attention has been given to the potentially shifting voting patterns of the U.S. Hispanic population in the 2...
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 ...