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Ethics Talk: Fighting Global HIV/AIDS During the COVID Pandemic

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Chris Beyrer about the challenges facing the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH is the Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Recorded on August 10, 2011

 

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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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Ethics Talk: White Coats for Black Lives

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Drs Joniqua Ceasar and Dorothy Charles about systemic racism, police brutality, and the role of health professionals in securing racial justice and health equity.

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Joniqua Ceasar, MD is a resident physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dorothy Charles, MD is a resident physician in family medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.

Both are on the national working group of WhiteCoats4BlackLives.

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Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Patient Care Professionalism

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Medicine and Society
May 2018

What Is the Institutional Duty of Trauma Systems to Respond to Gun Violence?

Sara Scarlet, MD and Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH
Pervasive and recurrent gun violence compels health care organizations to integrate violence prevention, intervention, and recidivism reduction as critical dimensions of good trauma care.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(5):483-491. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.msoc2-1805.
Case and Commentary
Jan 2017

Human Trafficking, Mental Illness, and Addiction: Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing

Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, Marti MacGibbon, CADC-II, ACRPS, and Joseph Stoklosa, MD
Clinicians diagnosing and treating potentially trafficked patients with co-occurring addiction and mental illness should guard against expressing negative biases.
AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(1):23-24. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.ecas3-1701.
Letter to the Editor
May 2018

Metaphorically or Not, Violence Is Not a Contagious Disease

Michael B. Greene, PhD
Violence reduction efforts should be modeled on noncontagious diseases, which have as their root cause environmental determinants, not contagious diseases.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(5):513-515. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.corr1-1805.
Letter to the Editor
May 2018

Response to “Metaphorically or Not, Violence Is Not a Contagious Disease”

Gary Slutkin, MD, Charles Ransford, MPP, and Daria Zvetina
Violence reduction efforts should focus on interrupting transmission of violence and changing behaviors rather than mitigating environmental risk factors.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(5):516-519. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.corr2-1805.
Case and Commentary
Jan 2017

Taking Up the Mantle of Human Trafficking Education: Who Should Be Responsible?

Carrie A. Bohnert, MPA, Aaron W. Calhoun, MD, and Olivia F. Mittel, MD, MS
Research and training are needed so that physicians are able to identify human trafficking victims and refer them to appropriate trauma-informed treatment.
AMA J Ethics. 2017; 19(1):35-42. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.ecas4-1701.
Medicine and Society
Dec 2018

Historical Situatedness of Categories’ Meanings in Medicine

Sander L. Gilman, PhD
Dichotomies, such as reconstructive vs aesthetic surgery and medical vs cosmetic dermatology, can distort meanings of surgical procedures. This can compromise the value of procedures themselves and practices for their reimbursement.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(12):E1188-1194. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1188.