Dr Thalia Arawi joins Ethics Talk to discuss the rise of states of “chronic emergency,” how health care workers can be protected when working in conflict zones, and how the international community needs to move beyond declarations to support those affected by war and conflict.

On this episode of Ethics Talk, Zahra H. Khan, Yoshiko Iwai, and Dr Sayantani DasGupta outline how “abolition medicine” can motivate critical responses to medicine’s expressions of hyper-punitive, deeply racialized exercises of state authority.

Safeguards are urgently needed for assessments of what constitutes appropriate care for unaccompanied minors in US detention facilities.

Compassionate release policies offering early release or parole to seriously ill incarcerated patients are underutilized and should be advocated for.

Structural competency helps physicians address reproductive health disparities through recognizing social determinants of health and social advocacy.

Clinicians should contribute to healthful, equitable, sustainable food procurement initiatives consistent with their institutions' health-promotion missions.

A midwife in the 1800s deserves our attention following the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022.

Fully assessing children’s sleep environments and effectively promoting children’s overall sleep health is nearly impossible during brief clinical encounters.

Modern epidemiological science developed as domestic and international infectious disease transmission accompanied industrialization and colonial military expansion.

Private equity investments in health care have grown to over $750 billion in the past decade and include every segment of the US health sector.