Emma Lantos, MD, Marit Pearlman Shapiro, MD, MPH, and Brian T. Nguyen, MD, MSCP
Evidence-based techniques for responding to patients’ pain expressions and experiences during such procedures are known, even in the absence of a standard of care.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(2):E129-136. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2025.129.
Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E569-575. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.569.
How society and medicine discussed and responded to child abuse changed dramatically in 1962. Since that time, the problem’s fuller scope has been revealed.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(2):E148-152. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.148.
Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.
Hasta mediados del siglo XX, el nacimiento en Estados Unidos para los pueblos indígenas latinos era una ceremonia ancestral guiada por parteras y curanderos tradicionales.