Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18. Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31. Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59. Viewpoint Dec 2019 Genome Editing, Ethics, and Politics Isabel Gabel, PhD and Jonathan Moreno, PhD Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1105-1110. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1105. In the Literature Jun 2019 Disentangling Evidence and Preference in Patient-Clinician Concordance Discussions Leah Z. G. Rand, DPhil and Zackary Berger, MD, PhD How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits? AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(6):E505-512. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.505. Case and Commentary Apr 2016 Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Strategies for Communicating Well with Patients Eva Schwartz, MD and Kishore Vellody, MD Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):359-364. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.ecas1-1604. Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239. Health Law Jun 2022 Survivor-Centered Approaches to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Klearchos A. Kyriakides, PhD, MPhil and Andreas K. Demetriades, MBBChir, MPhil During or after conflict, a clinician might be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(6):E495-517. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.495. Health Law Jun 2022 النُهج المتمحورة حول الناجين من العنف الجنسي المرتبط بالنزاع في القانون الإنساني الدولي وقانون حقوق الإنسان Klearchos A. Kyriakides, PhD, MPhil and Andreas K. Demetriades, MBBChir, MPhil AMA J Ethics. 2022;E495-517. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.495. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death? Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18.
Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31.
Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59.
Viewpoint Dec 2019 Genome Editing, Ethics, and Politics Isabel Gabel, PhD and Jonathan Moreno, PhD Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1105-1110. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1105.
In the Literature Jun 2019 Disentangling Evidence and Preference in Patient-Clinician Concordance Discussions Leah Z. G. Rand, DPhil and Zackary Berger, MD, PhD How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits? AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(6):E505-512. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.505.
Case and Commentary Apr 2016 Prenatal Risk Assessment and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Strategies for Communicating Well with Patients Eva Schwartz, MD and Kishore Vellody, MD Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):359-364. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.ecas1-1604.
Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239.
Health Law Jun 2022 Survivor-Centered Approaches to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Klearchos A. Kyriakides, PhD, MPhil and Andreas K. Demetriades, MBBChir, MPhil During or after conflict, a clinician might be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(6):E495-517. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.495.
Health Law Jun 2022 النُهج المتمحورة حول الناجين من العنف الجنسي المرتبط بالنزاع في القانون الإنساني الدولي وقانون حقوق الإنسان Klearchos A. Kyriakides, PhD, MPhil and Andreas K. Demetriades, MBBChir, MPhil AMA J Ethics. 2022;E495-517. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.495.