Dr Cynthia Geppert joins Ethics Talk to discuss how teaching health professions students and trainees about palliative psychiatry reinvigorates core philosophy of medicine investigations into what health care is for.

Good end-of-life care manifests as the intensification of care that is, ideally, already in place; care that begins at birth and persists across time, diagnoses, and caregiver groups—from family and community support to medical, custodial, and supplementary care.

Guidelines for the use of controlled substances for the treatment of pain now consider inappropriate treatment, including undertreatment of pain, a departure from an acceptable standard of practice.

Refusal of pediatric euthanasia can be considered iatrogenic insofar as it inadvertently prolongs patient suffering, but attitudes differ cross-culturally.

Art therapy helps trafficking survivors deal with trauma, but anti-trafficking advocates who exhibit survivors’ artwork must guard against re-exploitation.

Little attention has been given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations’ supply chains of key equipment, such as hand sanitizers and gloves.

Dr Hanni Stoklosa and Mike Schiller joins Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Drs Mollie Gordon, Rebecca Chen, John Coverdale, and Phuong Nguyen: “How Should Health Care Organizations Limit Roles of Human Trafficking in Their Labor and Supply Chains?”

This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Jacquelyn Nestor, a fifth-year MD/PhD student at Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, interviewed Allen Buchanan, PhD, about how we can safely explore cutting-edge biomedical enhancements.

Training for health care professionals on human trafficking should be informed by a human rights perspective and include prevention and identification of trafficking and treatment of trafficking-related health conditions.

The United States government’s insistence that organs can only be procured through altruism, rather than being exchanged or purchased, contributes to the very exploitation of people of color in developing countries it sought to prevent.