Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent 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. Viewpoint Dec 2019 Genome Editing, Ethics, and Politics Isabel Gabel, PhD and Jonathan Moreno, PhD Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1105-1110. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1105. 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 Apr 2023 How Should Clinicians Respond to Patients Experiencing Ongoing Present Traumatic Stress of Industrial Meat Production? Rachel MacNair, PhD Perpetration-induced traumatic stress should be understood as present, not just posttraumatic, stress disorder because retraumatization is part of slaughterhouse workers’ jobs. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E251-255. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.251. Case and Commentary Apr 2023 How Should Food Offered by Health Care Organizations Meet Individual, Community, and Ecological Needs? Jennifer L. Weinberg, MD, MPH, MBE Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E256-263. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.256. AMA Code Says Sep 2005 The Power of the Code AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(9):628-633. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.9.code1-0509. Case and Commentary Jan 2004 Campaign Posters in the Clinic, Commentary 1 Marion Danis, MD Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(1):6-8. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.1.ccas1-0401. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
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.
Viewpoint Dec 2019 Genome Editing, Ethics, and Politics Isabel Gabel, PhD and Jonathan Moreno, PhD Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(12):E1105-1110. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.1105.
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 Apr 2023 How Should Clinicians Respond to Patients Experiencing Ongoing Present Traumatic Stress of Industrial Meat Production? Rachel MacNair, PhD Perpetration-induced traumatic stress should be understood as present, not just posttraumatic, stress disorder because retraumatization is part of slaughterhouse workers’ jobs. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E251-255. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.251.
Case and Commentary Apr 2023 How Should Food Offered by Health Care Organizations Meet Individual, Community, and Ecological Needs? Jennifer L. Weinberg, MD, MPH, MBE Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E256-263. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.256.
AMA Code Says Sep 2005 The Power of the Code AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(9):628-633. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.9.code1-0509.
Case and Commentary Jan 2004 Campaign Posters in the Clinic, Commentary 1 Marion Danis, MD Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(1):6-8. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.1.ccas1-0401.