Articles

Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.

A guardian’s request to sterilize a woman with intellectual disabilities is not ethically justifiable unless the woman assents and it is to her benefit.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued.

Safe patient handling laws and programs offer considerable benefits to health care workers, who have higher rates of exertion injuries than other workers.

Physicians must resist judging the quality of life of their patients with Down syndrome and learn to listen and see them as individual personalities.

McMaster University’s medical school curriculum promotes compassionate, person-centered care by incorporating the views of persons with disabilities.

Introduction to the April 2016 issue on disability, medicine, and ethics.

Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

After the Indiana HIV outbreak in 2015, Congress partially repealed the ban on needle exchange programs, providing funding for operations but not syringes.