Dr Sean C. McConnell provides an introduction to gene editing, and Scott J. Schweikart discusses what prudent governance requires.

Dr Amanda Gray Rendón joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “A Case for Federal Labor Legislation to Protect Underpaid Home Care Workers.”

Gene editing to enhance humans’ adaptability to climate change should consider safety, harm to be averted, succeeding generations, and social consequences.

Physician work stoppages in response to rising malpractice insurance rates are designed with the hope of raising public awareness about this problem.

The national physicians' strikes in South Korea in 2000 succeeded in raising public awareness of defects in the Korean medical system and the need to reconcile the government health insurance system and private doctors.

Advancing the health of the global poor requires a “compass-based” framework that guides both morally sound and pragmatically effective action.

The AMA Code of Ethics' opinion on physician advocacy.

Physician employment adds a practice management stakeholder to the patient-physician encounter, a stakeholder whose financial interests differ from those of physicians in solo or group practice.

Publicizing physician ordering information as a way of peer-pressuring hospital employees into cutting costs is likely to have unintended consequences.

Farmworkers can become ill due to toxic exposure in their work environments. Recommending specific restrictions, educating patients on protection strategies, and partnering with agribusiness owners and allied health workers can drive development of alternatives to agricultural practices with health risks.