AMA Journal of Ethics

Minimizing and managing risks of ENMs means considering whether and when existing legal frameworks offer sufficient protection.

Ethical stakes include a psychiatrist’s care management responsibilities and burdens borne by family members over the course of the patient’s care.

Growth in nano-based approaches to cancer diagnostics and therapeutics creates need to include nanotoxicology in medical education.

Patients’ experiences of darkness and doubt can be replaced by a sense of buoyancy and lightness. Color and movement convey a patient’s sense of striving, aspiration, and optimism.

Nanoscale materials used to diagnose, monitor, prevent, and treat disease have revolutionized how we think about disease etiology at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels. How should ethics respond?

Wearable or implantable devices enable employers to monitor health, productivity, and wellness of employees.

When an unproven intervention is a nanodrug, a physician’s role is especially difficult due to possibilities of unprecedented harms.

Nanoscale products pose ethical, legal, and policy challenges to governing the use of products that integrate multiple mechanisms of therapeutic action.

A form of aripiprazole places unique ethical and clinical demands on mental health professionals.

Changes to CB tax policy could promote engagement with public health departments, collaboration with community-based nonprofits, and greater focus on health equity.