Though body size can be altered with environmental or behavioral changes, anatomic shape, which appears to be genetically determined, cannot be changed except by surgery, trauma, or illness.

Undocumented patients in the United States with end-stage renal disease receive “compassionate” dialysis. Such patients oscillate between being marginally well and “ill enough” to receive dialysis while clinicians wrestle with complicity in a system that both offers and withholds life-saving therapy.

Seven photos taken in Flint illuminate environmental injustice, the city’s attempts to respond, and individuals’ experiences.

Forced migration of Pacific Islanders raises ethical issues of health and health care disparities, which are examined in the case of Tuvaluan immigrants.

This graphic considers clinical and ethical dimensions of community- and health professions-based obligations to children experiencing homelessness.