Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing”.

A description of therapeutic applications of art making in the elderly population.

As a matter of medical ethics, physicians must address the health care needs of and be advocates for family caregivers of their patients with dementia.

Kevin Hosseini’s painting of his tutor’s dog, Bella.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

Medical ethics concerns about the use of memory-modulating technologies should not override individual decisions about their use in clinical contexts.

What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early?

The harms of communicating autism risk can be avoided by helping families to understand risk and to distinguish between poor and good sources of scientific information, which should take families’ interests into account.

In treating children with autism, physicians should reframe the common dynamic in which the family wants medication that the doctor is withholding to focus instead on the family’s and physician’s share goal—the patient’s well-being.