AMA Journal of Ethics^®

In American culture, blood, sweat, and tears mantras of sports remind athletes that they are expected to perform past their breaking points. 

“Contraception Options” considers the general social and cultural expectation and norm that women’s bodies should be the sites of contraception.

A “social wallpaper” installation combines poetry and visual art on 4 walls covering a 4-story hospital elevator lobby.

Portraits of clinicians quickly became emblematic of what the COVID-19 pandemic has demanded of all of us, especially caregivers who witnessed deaths likely unprecedented in number during their careers.

This first-person narrative illuminates how the author—a nurse, artist, and dancer—uses the arts and movement to help patients and clinicians process personal loss individually and collectively in the hospital setting.

In arts-based-research, knowledge and meaning emerge from human experiences of being in dynamic, ambiguous, intentional, and ethical relationships with each other and the arts.

With today’s myriad natural and man-made threats to human flourishing, a Confucian proverb on common good encourages consideration of a shared future.

One of the most recognized paintings of Western medicine, Luke Fildes' The Doctor challenges us to think about what good doctoring is.

This watercolor self-portrait visually characterizes an irony faced by clinicians who are underrepresented minorities.

This series of 5 color oil on canvas sketches includes a sequence of images and illuminates one patient’s postoperative experiences.