Ethics Talk: Should Adolescents Be Able to Consent for COVID-19 Vaccinations?
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Abigail English about the ethical and legal implications of adolescents consenting for COVID-19 vaccination.
Abigail English, JD is director of the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Recorded on July 27, 2021
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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Visibility and Measurability in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Blowing the Whistle on ICE or US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Azadeh Shahshahani about health ethics breaches in US detention centers and how health professionals should respond to them.
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Azadeh Shahshahani, JD, MA is legal and advocacy director at ProjectSouth, which recently filed a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General documenting serious health and safety violations at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Caring for Native Americans
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Ethics Talk: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID and Beyond
In this video and podcast edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park about the resurgence of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vivian Shaw, PhD is a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.
Susanna Park, MA is a PhD candidate at Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences.
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Recorded on April 19, 2021
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Compassionate Force
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Ethics Talk: Plight of Workers in Low Wage Jobs and COVID-19
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Donald Tomaskovic-Devey about the social and economic hurdles confronted by those among us in low-wage jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, PhD is the executive director of the Center for Employment Equity at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Professionalism
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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Portraiture in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Virtue Ethics, Moral Authority, and COVID-19
In this special video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talked with Dr Edmund Pellegrino (1920-2013) about personal virtues in shaping ethical behavior and moral authority in promoting the common good.
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Edmund Pellegrino, MD was professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics at Georgetown University.
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Professionalism
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Interviewee is assumed to have no conflicts of interest.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Humor in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 2
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Nancy Krieger about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism.
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Nancy Krieger, PhD is a professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Part 1 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism Systems-Based Practice
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Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Part 1
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with members of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences commission charged with developing recommendations aimed at restoring trust in our constitutional democracy.
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Antonia Hernandez, JD is chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation.
Wallace Jefferson, JD is former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2004-13).
Eric Liu, JD is chief executive officer of Citizen University.
Part 2 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees are members of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Part 2
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with members of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences commission charged with developing recommendations aimed at restoring trust in our constitutional democracy.
Click here to read the transcript.
Antonia Hernandez, JD is chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation.
Wallace Jefferson, JD is former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2004-13).
Eric Liu, JD is chief executive officer of Citizen University.
Part 1 of this conversation is here.
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Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees are members of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Opioids and Public Health
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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 in US Detention Camps
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Prof Holly Cooper about the dangerous living conditions for children and adults in US immigration detention facilities.
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Holly Cooper, JD is co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California Davis School of Law.
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Professionalism
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Conflicts of Interest
Holly Cooper previously represented unaccompanied children on the Flores case in US District Court in California.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Humor in Health Care
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Ethics Talk: Immunity Status, Social Privilege, and the Novel Coronavirus
In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, talks with Kathryn Olivarius, PhD, about how yellow fever epidemics during the antebellum South provide a historical lens to examine power asymmetries and health inequities in the COVID-19 era.
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Kathryn Olivarius, PhD is an assistant professor of history at Stanford University.
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Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Patient Care Professionalism
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee had no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
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Sharing Health Decisions
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