Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609. History of Medicine Feb 2025 Abortion in the Nineteenth Century Through the Lens of Ann Lohman Suzanne Minor, MD, Arianna Tapia, and Sarah E. Stumbar, MD, MPH 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. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(2):E149-158. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.149. Viewpoint Sep 2021 Is the FDA Failing Women? Madris Kinard, MBA and Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc Many devices in current use were marketed before manufacturers were required to demonstrate safety and effectiveness. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(9):E750-756. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.750. History of Medicine Sep 2021 FDA Device Oversight From 1906 to the Present Anna Pisac and Natalia Wilson, MD, MPH A history of device oversight by the US Food and Drug Administration traces regulatory changes in response to injuries caused by Dalkon Shield intrauterine devices. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(9):E712-720. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.712. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. Read in: 中文 Español AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 当医生发现其患者被强制绝育时应如何应对？ Rebecca Kluchin, PhD 消毒需要醫生的手術技巧。強制絕育需要許多臨床醫師的配合。 Read in: English Español AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 ¿Cómo debería responder un médico al descubrir que su paciente ha sido sometido a una esterilización forzada? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD La esterilización requiere las habilidades quirúrgicas de los médicos. La esterilización forzada requiere la complicidad de muchos médicos. Read in: English 中文 AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18.
Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609.
History of Medicine Feb 2025 Abortion in the Nineteenth Century Through the Lens of Ann Lohman Suzanne Minor, MD, Arianna Tapia, and Sarah E. Stumbar, MD, MPH 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. AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(2):E149-158. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.149.
Viewpoint Sep 2021 Is the FDA Failing Women? Madris Kinard, MBA and Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc Many devices in current use were marketed before manufacturers were required to demonstrate safety and effectiveness. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(9):E750-756. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.750.
History of Medicine Sep 2021 FDA Device Oversight From 1906 to the Present Anna Pisac and Natalia Wilson, MD, MPH A history of device oversight by the US Food and Drug Administration traces regulatory changes in response to injuries caused by Dalkon Shield intrauterine devices. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(9):E712-720. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.712.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. Read in: 中文 Español AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 当医生发现其患者被强制绝育时应如何应对？ Rebecca Kluchin, PhD 消毒需要醫生的手術技巧。強制絕育需要許多臨床醫師的配合。 Read in: English Español AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 ¿Cómo debería responder un médico al descubrir que su paciente ha sido sometido a una esterilización forzada? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD La esterilización requiere las habilidades quirúrgicas de los médicos. La esterilización forzada requiere la complicidad de muchos médicos. Read in: English 中文 AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18.
