Differentiating between best palliative care options and the curative and palliative potential of surgery is key to developing dual intentional clarity.

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

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

The range of opinions on the extent to which physicians should attend to their patients’ spiritual lives and the arguments that support those opinions.

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.

An examination of how a doctor should counsel a pregnant woman through the ethical and medical challenges of being diagnosed with stage II cervical cancer.

Religious commitment supports a faith-based health clinic in its efforts to serve the poor patient population in its Chicago community.

US case law protects a woman's right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment for her fetus on religious grounds.

Physicians need to carefully explain the difficult medical realities of carrying a fetus with severe congenital abnormalities to term but then follow the wishes of a religious family who ask for reasonable medical care.

Physicians need to carefully explain the difficult medical realities of carrying a fetus with severe congenital abnormalities to term but then follow the wishes of a religious family who ask for reasonable medical care.