Children/Adolescents, Clinical Ethics, Psychiatric Ethics
Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Are Morally Wrong
There is a powerful political movement in this country to prevent transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming car...
Subject: Psychiatric Ethics
Children/Adolescents, Psychedelics, Psychiatric Ethics
Should Adolescents Be Included in Clinical Psychedelic Research?
Clinical psychedelic research has surged globally in the past decade, with dozens of trials investigating psilocybin and...
Clinical Ethics, Psychiatric Ethics
Psychiatric Advance Directives as an Instrument for Care and Justice
Over fifty years ago, Luis Kutner, the progenitor of medical advance care planning, introduced a then radical idea: that...
Editorial-AJOB, Psychiatric Ethics
Managing the Hope and Hype of Psychedelics
This editorial appears in the January 2025 Special Issue on Psychedelic Ethics of the American Journal of Bioethics. Psy...
Editorial-AJOB, Psychiatric Ethics
The Pain Gap: Epistemic Justice in Psychedelic Ethics
This editorial appears in the January 2025 Special Issue on Psychedelic Ethics of the American Journal of Bioethics. Pai...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Psychiatric Ethics
Coercion, Power Relations, and the Expectations Patients Bring to Mental Health Treatment
This editorial appears in the December 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. When does an interaction between...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Psychiatric Ethics
Context Matters
This editorial appears in the December 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Hempeler et al.’s focus on ...
Editorial-AJOB, Psychiatric Ethics
Editorial: Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege
Note: This editorial accompanies The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 11 (2023). By the time this essay i...
Conflict of Interest, Cultural, Decision making, Gender Disparities, Justice, Media, Psychiatric Ethics
#FreeBritney: Autonomy, Conservatorships, and Mental Health in America
By Jennifer L Young, PhD, Julia E H Brown, PhD, Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD In a small but significant change ...
Politics, Psychiatric Ethics
The Mental Health Pandemic that Did Not Need to Be
by Bandy X. Lee, MD, Mdiv Mary Trump’s recent article pinpointed our problem with “the Goldwater rule”: “in Ma...
Justice, Psychiatric Ethics, Social Justice
Defunding the Police is a Bioethical Issue
by Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD Many organizations that are working to end police brutality (the #BlackBioethics Tool...
Neuroethics, Psychiatric Ethics, Technology
Sorry I Didn’t Hear You.” The Ethics of Voice Computing and AI in High Risk Mental Health Populations
Abstract This article examines the ethical and policy implications of using voice computing and artificial intelligence ...
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