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.

The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust.

The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide.

Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts.

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

Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

Unchallenged supra-geographic segregation perpetuates racial medical mythology, exacerbates myopia in health professions practice and education, and perpetuates injustice.

Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.