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...
Subject: Politics
Health Regulation & Law, Politics, Public Health
Slouching Toward Kakistocracy: Experts Need Not Apply
Anti-intellectualism runs deep in American society. The cabinet picks of the current administration reflect this sentime...
Cultural, Politics
Have We Finally Amused Ourselves to Death? The Triumph of Entertainment Values over Civic ...
In early 2016, I wrote a blog for Bioethics Today (formerly bioethics.net) that examined the rise of the Trump movement ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
The Unjust Extreme Court of the United States
Justice can be defined as conforming to truth, fact or reason. Furthering the concept would include such considera...
Policy, Politics
A Democracy in Peril
Our founding fathers envisioned us as a constitution based democratic society and penned a document that successfully pr...
Health Disparities, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
Abortion: Welcome to the Sixties
In November 1964, 9 years before the right to an abortion was codified by Roe v. Wade, I was an intern in a busy, urban ...
Global Ethics, Health Disparities, Politics, Public Health, Social Justice, Vaccines, Vulnerable Populations
Vaccinating the World: The Problem with Drop-in-the-Bucket Thinking
By Govind Persad, JD, PhD The United States, after wasting over 15 million doses since March and with a stockp...