Since health organizations offer food, they are situated at key intersections of agricultural policies and practices and public health.

Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Terri Davis, a third-year MD student at West Virginia University School of Medicine, interviewed Ranit Mishori, MD, about how to respond to incidents of suspected human trafficking in health care settings.

Physicians caring for trafficking victims should know about applicable criminal and human rights law and mandatory reporting requirements.

Drs Pringl Miller, Preeti John, and Sabha Ganai join Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “How Should Surgical Palliative Success Be Defined?”

Lack of ethical, legal, and clinical consensus about best practice sometimes combines with a poor clinical evidence base.

This article considers relevant history that informs the AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions about neurological criteria for death.