Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent History of Medicine Dec 2021 Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine Robert Baker, PhD and Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.995. 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. Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31. Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59. Case and Commentary Mar 2022 Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice Crystal M. Hayes, PhD, MSW and Anu Manchikanti Gomez, PhD Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(3):E188-193. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.188. 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. In the Literature Apr 2016 A Defense of “The Case for Conserving Disability” Jasmine Zahid Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):399-405. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.nlit2-1604. 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. Case and Commentary Jan 2023 Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching and Learning Occurs in Segregated Settings? Adriana Pero and Emily L. Xu Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(1):E15-20. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.15. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
History of Medicine Dec 2021 Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine Robert Baker, PhD and Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.995.
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.
Medical Education Jan 2021 How Should Students Learn About Contemporary Implications of Health Professionals’ Roles in the Holocaust? Robert Baker, PhD The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E31-37. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.31.
Medicine and Society Jan 2021 Teaching Hard Truths About Medicine and the Holocaust Tessa Chelouche, MD The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E59-63. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.59.
Case and Commentary Mar 2022 Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice Crystal M. Hayes, PhD, MSW and Anu Manchikanti Gomez, PhD Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(3):E188-193. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.188.
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.
In the Literature Apr 2016 A Defense of “The Case for Conserving Disability” Jasmine Zahid Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(4):399-405. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.4.nlit2-1604.
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.
Case and Commentary Jan 2023 Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching and Learning Occurs in Segregated Settings? Adriana Pero and Emily L. Xu Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(1):E15-20. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.15.