Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Fat Norms and the AMA.”

The history of McMaster University's problem-based learning curriculum and critical appraisal methods, which Gordon Guyatt and David Sackett would later advocate as evidence-based medicine.

The decision-making capacity and autonomy of burn patients and medical paternalism is examined through the cases of Dax Cowart and Andrea Rubin.

When a Public Health Service medical officer diagnosed an immigrant with a “loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease,” that individual was considered “medically certified.”

A brief history of public opposition to disease surveillance in the U.S., despite the documented success of this tool in recognizing and managing threats to public health.

Health care professionals and those who teach them must be prepared to examine the implications of carbon dioxide emissions on human well-being and make decisive steps towards sustainability.

The Medical Committee for Human Rights left its mark on American history and provided a model for organizations that succeeded it, like Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for a National Health Program.

There is no morally compelling reason to distinguish a doctor from a tank driver on the battlefield except for the fact that both sides agree to protect medical personnel.

Medicare reimbursement practices have brought the hospital to the center of the American medical system, to the detriment of primary care.

The alarm generated by the AIDS epidemic left civil liberties proponents fearful that traditional public health responses might be imposed on newly susceptible or infected populations.