A nudge is an intervention designed to prompt a person to “voluntarily” make a choice intended by those who altered an environment or situation to yield that choice.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(9):E767-772. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.767.
In the 1910s, the American Medical Association fought quackery promoted in pamphlets for drugs and treatments for everything from teething to epilepsy.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(11):E1082-1093. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.1082.
Stephanie L. Samuels, MD and Wilma C. Rossi, MD, MBE
When a parent resists a physician's recommendation for a pediatric patient, physician-parent partnering can promote the patient's best interest and help encourage lifestyle changes.
AMA J Ethics. 2018; 20(12):E1126-1132. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2018.1126
Nanoscale products pose ethical, legal, and policy challenges to governing the use of products that integrate multiple mechanisms of therapeutic action.
AMA J Ethics. 2019; 21(4):E347-355. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.347.