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.

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

Physicians who have adequately informed a competent patient of his or her diagnosis, its meaning, and medically appropriate options should then accept the patient’s informed consent or refusal of treatment.

Clinical facts and physicians’ ethical obligations are critical in resolving disagreements between parents and physicians about resuscitation of an extremely premature infant.

The rule of double effect can help Catholic institutions determine whether terminal sedation is ever morally acceptable.