Dr Emily Shearer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Jay Baruch: "Decision Aids, Doorknob Moments, and Physician-Patient Solidarity in EDs.”

Dr Charles E. Binkley joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with David Kemp and Dr Brandi Braud Scully: “Should We Rely on AI to Help Avoid Bias in Patient Selection for Major Surgery?”

As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

The president of the Association of American Medical Colleges gives reasons why medical schools need to continue affirmative action admissions policies.

This article gives a brief overview of two legal cases where students were denied admission to the University of Michigan.

Defenses of affirmative action rely on faulty assumptions about the educational value of student-body diversity and the best ways to address educational inequities.

An attempt to investigate correlations between race, attitudes, and contraceptive use did not find meaningful associations between race and attitudes about birth control or pregnancy that could influence contraceptive choice.

Would you question health decisions made by a 37-year old Black woman whose great-grandfather died in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee?

Developing technologies for personalized medicine may be misused to popularize the idea that one can infer a person’s genetic makeup from observer-defined or self-reported assignment to a race or ethnic group.