Ethics, Research Ethics, Social Justice
Open Science, Counterscience, and the Limits of Trust
A recent New York Times investigative report by Mike McIntire describes how genetic and brain imaging data from thousand...
Subject: Social Justice
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Justice, Politics, Social Justice
Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
This editorial appears in the August 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Bioethics emerged in the...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Disparities, Social Justice
Bioethics, Equity, and Inclusion: How Do We Not Add to the Minority Tax?
This editorial appears in the October 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics As a Black bioethicist whose prima...
Editorial-AJOB, Professional Ethics, Social Justice
The Future of Bioethics: Striving for a More Diverse and Inclusive Bioethics
This editorial can be found in the September 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics n light of this empirical s...
Cultural, Gender Disparities, Health Disparities, Social Justice
Microaggressions And Black Maternal Health
The United States has the highest rate of death in pregnancy and childbirth. According to a 2023 report, it is one ...
Cultural, LGBTQ ethics, Policy, Social Justice
Why Bioethics Needs Pride: Anti-LGBTQ Laws and Health Disparities
So far this year there have been over 300 anti-LGBTQ laws introduced in the US, already breaking last year’s recor...
Pediatrics, Social Justice
California Clinics Ask About Childhood Trauma: Schools Should Too
In a public health push, since 2020 California’s ACEs Aware Initiative has screened over 500,000 children&nbs...
Cultural, Education, Medical Humanities, Philosophy & Ethics, Race, Science, Social Justice
The Folly of Apolitical Science
By Johnathan Flowers, PhD A persistent myth in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Medicine) fields argues that sci...
Editorial-AJOB, Health Disparities, Justice, Social Justice
Editorial: Disability, Aging, and the Importance of Recognizing Social Supports in Medical...
By Kevin Mintz, PhD and David Magnus, PhD Note: The following editorial was recently published in the American Journal o...
Global Ethics, Neuroethics, Race, Social Justice
Engaging Social Justice: An Expanded Vision for Neuroethics
by Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD; Laura Y. Cabrera, PhD and Timothy E. Brown, PhD The novelist Arundhati Roy wrote tha...
ASBH, Education, Social Justice
Does ASBH Really Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
by Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD, Kevin T. Mintz, PhD, Holly K. Tabor, PhD The American Society for Bioethics and the Human...
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...