The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

Prognostic uncertainty about risk creates demand for ongoing communication and facilitated reflection about goals and values.

Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences.

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

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

Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued.

During or after conflict, a clinician might be required to provide evidence to an official investigatory body or court.

Professor Leonard Rubenstein joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Rohini Haar: “What Does Ethics Demand of Health Care Practice in Conflict Zones?”

Not offering indicated major surgery can result in iatrogenic injury. Decision support systems can help . . . right?