C. Alessandra Colaianni, MD, MPhil and Alexander Langerman, MD, SM
Palliative care—medically or surgically intervening to relieve suffering and support quality of life for seriously ill patients—is now an independent, growing specialty.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(10):E759-760. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.759.
Behavioral psychology considers connections between our thinking and reasoning tendencies and how we respond to environmental stimuli. Behavioral architecture applies what we know about those responses to influence our actions.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E757-759. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.757.
This issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics explores palliative psychiatry as one response to pharmacological futility that reinvigorates core philosophy of medicine investigations into what health care is for.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(9):E653-654. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.653.
The political landscape surrounding trans adolescents’ care access remains hostile, and this issue considers clinicians’ roles as protectors of patient-centered, inclusive care.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E383-385. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.383.
This issue contextualizes need for learners to engage structural determinants of health and offers strategies to faculty looking to center criticality in their teaching, research, and scholarship.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E3-5. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.3.
With their expertise in physiology, pharmacology, and resuscitation, anesthesiologists made essential contributions to the development of critical care medicine.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(3):199-201. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.3.fred1-1503.