This commentary suggests extinction medicine competencies, who might become an extinction medicine clinician, and how the specialty might be launched.

Despite broad awareness of impending existential threats to humanity, protections from these threats are not yet widely recognized as human rights.

This article considers ethical reasons why people alive today have obligations to members of future generations.

Existential ethics is the study of the ethical and evaluative implications of human extinction. This article examines 4 key concepts in this emerging field.

Since health is a crucial feature of persons’ well-being, we have good reasons to consider all present and future persons as members of a “league of patients.” 

This commentary on a case introduces 3 critical approaches to a case: equivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionist.

How are virtues expressed when we deliberate about existential ethical questions of global warming, nuclear war, and rogue artificial intelligence applications?

This commentary on a case argues there are 2 reasons why physicians, in particular, should help avert nuclear war.

Despite their essential functions, rural EMS systems are often underfunded and understaffed to the point at which health equity is severely compromised.

Ethics and science inform EMTs’ and paramedics’ decisions to initiate, continue, or terminate resuscitation.