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. Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010. Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038. 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. 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. State of the Art and Science Apr 2016 Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar?: Disability and the Future of Prenatal Screening Gareth M. Thomas, PhD and Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):406-415. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.stas1-1604. Podcast Nov 2022 Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 3/5: How Do We Teach Evidence-Based Standard of Care Now? Dr Jody Steinauer joins Ethics Talk to discuss possible responses to what the Dobbs decision demands of clinician-teachers. State of the Art and Science Apr 2005 Complications of Anticoagulation with Heparin Mahesh Krishnamurthy, MD and Michael L. Freedman, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(4):297-300. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.4.cprl1-0504. From the Editor Mar 2018 Reproduction, Inequality, and Technology: The Face of Global Reproductive Health Ethics in the Twenty-First Century Ashish Premkumar, MD Introduction to the March 2018 issue on global reproductive health care ethics in the 21st century. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):224-227. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.fred1-1803. Original Research Mar 2018 Structural Competency and Reproductive Health Margaret Mary Downey, MSW and Anu Manchikanti Gómez, MSc, PhD Structural competency helps physicians address reproductive health disparities through recognizing social determinants of health and social advocacy. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):211-223. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.peer1-1803. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 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.
Medical Education Dec 2020 How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010.
Policy Forum Dec 2020 What Should We Do About the Mismatch Between Legal Criteria for Death and How Brain Death Is Diagnosed? Nathaniel M. Robbins, MD and James L. Bernat, MD Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1038-1046. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1038.
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.
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.
State of the Art and Science Apr 2016 Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar?: Disability and the Future of Prenatal Screening Gareth M. Thomas, PhD and Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):406-415. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.stas1-1604.
Podcast Nov 2022 Ethics Talk Series on US Abortion Care After Dobbs, Episode 3/5: How Do We Teach Evidence-Based Standard of Care Now? Dr Jody Steinauer joins Ethics Talk to discuss possible responses to what the Dobbs decision demands of clinician-teachers.
State of the Art and Science Apr 2005 Complications of Anticoagulation with Heparin Mahesh Krishnamurthy, MD and Michael L. Freedman, MD Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(4):297-300. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.4.cprl1-0504.
From the Editor Mar 2018 Reproduction, Inequality, and Technology: The Face of Global Reproductive Health Ethics in the Twenty-First Century Ashish Premkumar, MD Introduction to the March 2018 issue on global reproductive health care ethics in the 21st century. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):224-227. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.fred1-1803.
Original Research Mar 2018 Structural Competency and Reproductive Health Margaret Mary Downey, MSW and Anu Manchikanti Gómez, MSc, PhD Structural competency helps physicians address reproductive health disparities through recognizing social determinants of health and social advocacy. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):211-223. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.peer1-1803.