How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

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

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit.

When clinicians engage surrogates in video calls showing the patient’s body, several competing ethical questions must be considered.

Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss what clinicians need to know about changes to the post-June 2022 legal, ethical, and clinical landscape of abortion care in the US.

Principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence guide trauma-informed care. Care ethics should also support this framework for responding to the health needs of trafficked patients.

Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.

This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients.

Two bioethicists argue that prenatal disability screening promotes negativity toward the disabled and gives parents the ability to selectively form families.