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Case and Commentary
Apr 2025

¿Cómo deberían proteger los miembros del equipo de cirugía a los pacientes que están privados de libertad de la vigilancia o intrusión de los oficiales del centro penitenciario?

Anna Lin, MD and Mallory Williams, MD, MPH
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¿Cómo se debe describir y tratar el dolor causado por la colocación del DIU?

Veronica Hutchison, MD and Eve Espey, MD, MPH

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    Case and Commentary
    Mar 2024

    How Should Suicide Prevention and Healing Be Expressed as Goals of Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design?

    Jennifer T. McIntosh, PhD, RN, CNE, PMH-BC, NEA-BC and Mona Shattell, PhD, RN
    This commentary examines prevention policies that overly rely on liberty restrictions imposed by designs of inpatient psychiatric units’ structures and spaces.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E199-204. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.199.
  • medu2-2403
    Medical Education
    Mar 2024

    What Should Health Professions Students Know About Countertransference in Inpatient Psychiatric Environments?

    Erik Levinsohn, MD and Marta Herschkopf, MD
    Inpatient psychiatric units are designed around the twin aims of treatment and containment, but emotional norms and tone also contribute to care environments.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E232-236. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.232.
  • cscm4-2403
    Case and Commentary
    Mar 2024

    Should Patients’ Boredom in Locked Inpatient Psychiatric Units Be Considered Iatrogenic Harm?

    Carrie Tamarelli, MD, Angela Cao, and Rebecca Grossman-Kahn, MD, MBA
    Patients’ vulnerabilities and conditions can be exacerbated when they feel bored.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E219-224. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.219.
  • mhst1-2403
    History of Medicine
    Mar 2024

    What Does the History of Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design Tell Us About Balancing Safety and Healing for Patients With Suicidal Behaviors?

    Alice J. Liu, David S. Im, MD, and Laura D. Hirshbein, MD, PhD
    Examining modern design trends in historical context is more clinically and ethically important than ever.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E257-263. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.257.
  • artm1-2403
    Art of Medicine
    Mar 2024

    How Better Architecture of Health Care Structures and Spaces Can Help Avoid Iatrogenic Harm

    Sudhiksha Srinivasan, MArch
    This series of digital drawings considers how design influences patients’ experiences.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E264-269. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.264.
  • cscm2-2403
    Case and Commentary
    Mar 2024

    Should Dignity Preservation Be a Precondition for Safety and a Design Priority for Healing in Inpatient Psychiatry Spaces?

    Róisín Plunkett, MD and Brendan D. Kelly, MD, PhD
    Therapeutic security in inpatient psychiatric settings requires careful planning and implementation if it is to support both patients’ safety and dignity.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E205-211. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.205.
  • fred1-2402
    From the Editor
    Feb 2024

    Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Intersections of Human, Animal, and Environmental Health

    Ariadne A. Nichol
    Combatting infections that start in several species is neither practically nor ethically easy.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E99-102. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.99.
  • medu2-2402
    Medical Education
    Feb 2024

    Top 5 Things Health Professions Students Should Know About Ecology and Waste Management

    Joelle I. Rosser, MD, MS, Orion X. Lavery, Rebecca C. Christofferson, PhD, MApSt, Juma Nasoro, Francis M. Mutuku, PhD, and A. Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS
    Organizations’ architecture and communities’ waste stream designs situate how well industrial hygiene practices support or undermine individuals’ and communities’ pathogenic vulnerability.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E132-141. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.132.
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    Medicine and Society
    Feb 2024

    How High Reliability Can Facilitate Clinical, Organizational, and Public Health Responses to Global Ecological Health Risks

    Lloyd Duplechan
    High reliability organizations operate in complex, high-hazard domains for extended periods without serious accidents, catastrophic failures, or ecological health threats.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E171-178. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.171.
  • cscm3-2402
    Case and Commentary
    Feb 2024

    How Should Wet Market Practices Be Regulated to Curb Zoonotic Disease Transmission?

    Jake Young, PhD, MPH, MFA
    Consumption and trade of wild animals present major zoonotic disease transmission risks.
    AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(2):E116-121. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.116.

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