Julie M.G. Rogers, PhD, C. Christopher Hook, MD, and Rachel D. Havyer, MD
The medical profession’s valuing of intellectual ability may inadvertently harm people with intellectual or cognitive disabilities who have a different notion of “the good life.”
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(8):717-726. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.8.peer1-1508.
The European Dementia Village is a pioneering health care site, and a US-based model is the Dementia Friendly City Center, which integrates service delivery into adaptive reuse and urban revitalization.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(12):E938-947. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.938.
Safety-net hospitals care for patients who are incarcerated and are key environments in which surgical trainees learn to wield their professional autonomy.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(4):E263-268. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2025.263.
Jennifer T. McIntosh, PhD, RN, CNE, PMH-BC, NEA-BC and Mona Shattell, PhD, RN
This commentary examines prevention policies that overly rely on liberty restrictions imposed by designs of inpatient psychiatric units’ structures and spaces.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(3):E199-204. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.199.