AMA Journal of Ethics

Dr Paris Adkins-Jackson proposes how to measure racism in academic health centers, as one responsibility of medicine is to rebuild trust with marginalized communities.

Physicians and pharmacists play key roles in addressing social determinants of health and health inequity.

Institutional racism mediates structural racism and is embedded in institutional policies, clinical practice, health professional training, and biomedical research.

Ethical obligations to address racial health inequity in American life exist now, just as they did in 1865.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.

Some refugees’ illness experiences preclude them from testifying and accurately representing their own interests during asylum adjudication proceedings.

Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear.

Dr Steven Goodman talks about the ethical and scientific implications of breaking the blind of placebo-controlled COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Dr Arthur Caplan talks about hesitancy among US health care workers to take COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the FDA for emergency use.

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.