What should have happened in the tragic case of Adriana Smith, the two-months-pregnant woman who was declared brain dead...
The widely discussed Adriana Smith case unfolding in Atlanta raises many thorny ethical questions. Despite the case’s hi...
This editorial appears in the May 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. As the “bio” in “bioethics” suggests...
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...
Anti-intellectualism runs deep in American society. The cabinet picks of the current administration reflect this sentime...
In early 2016, I wrote a blog for Bioethics Today (formerly bioethics.net) that examined the rise of the Trump movement ...
No matter your views about the chaos in the world around us, what we, as bioethicists, have been witnessing at Columbia ...
War tests the fundamental ethical obligations of medical practice. In the middle of conflicts, it can be difficult for p...
Former American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) President Joseph Fins, MD has recently argued that bioethicis...
Along with apple pie, colonialism, and imperialism, one of America’s best-known characteristics known around the globe i...
On the morning of Friday, June 24, 2022, over half of the population of the United States was stripped of a fundamental ...
Justice can be defined as conforming to truth, fact or reason. Furthering the concept would include such considera...