AMA Journal of Ethics

Artist and researcher Dr Mark Gilbert joins Ethics Talk to discuss arts-based research: what it is, who it’s for, and why we should pay closer attention to it as a method of clinical inquiry.

This study offers an arts-based tool set capable of being delivered within the familiar medical education setting and established structure of the OSCE.

The Aesthetics of Health undergraduate visual art course at the University of Texas at Austin was designed to enhance art students’ awareness of cancer’s impact.

This study has implications for designing arts-based wellness activities for clinicians and scaling them nationwide.

Healthy Housing Omaha, an environmental health nonprofit, partnered with an artist and a newspaper to raise awareness of lead poisoning.

Responsible arts in health research requires interrogating what counts as evidence, especially when the insistence on rigor risks oversimplifying and diminishing what’s ineffable about the arts.

Research that places subjects and investigators at risk of additional harm must be considered carefully.

Clinicians in postconflict health care settings can be tasked with caring for patients who were enemies.

Systematic analysis of extant research ethics guidance is needed for conflict-affected countries and UN agencies.

International humanitarian law obliges clinicians to coordinate with local civilian, military, and nongovernment organizations, and implementation isn't easy.