John Timothy Kayiwa joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Benard Matovu, Michael Mutebi, Charity Angella Nassuna, Leonara Nabatanzi, and Drs Kevin T. Castle, Robert M. Kityo, and Rebekah C. Kading: “How Should a One Health Perspective Promote Cross-Disciplinary Research About Bat-Associated Viruses in Uganda?”
This comic invites readers to consider aesthetic and ethical intersections of how odds might be presented—even exaggerated—to cultivate fear in public health messaging.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(8):E643-645. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.643.
This multipaneled comic follows a woman robot preparing for a breast examination. Oil “leakage” recurs in the comic, suggesting its ethical importance in metaphorically representing a patient’s stress responses.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(8):E646-650. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.646.
Unclear regulations and informal data gathering on immigrants who receive or donate organs can cause mistrust and suspicion of the organ allocation system and affect donation rates.
Immigrant patients are often bewildered when they need to seek health care in the U.S., and that care usually comes from physicians who are unsympathetic to their plight.