Kimberly A. Singletary, PhD and Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH
The Roadmap to Advance Health Equity offers specific, actionable antiracist payment reform strategies to help ensure that everyone can receive good health services and optimize their health.
AMA J Ethics. 2023; 25(1):E55-65. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.55.
Tia Powell, MD, Sophia Shapiro, MD, and Ed Stein, JD, PhD
“Born that way” arguments have been used to establish transgender rights, but lack scientific evidence. Stronger support for promoting transgender rights comes instead from human rights-based language.
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(11):1126-1131. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.11.pfor3-1611.
Feminism plays critical roles in innovating health care policies and practices. Feminist insights into clinicians as gatekeepers to gender-transition interventions can help resist tendencies to pathologize transgender.
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(11):1132-1138. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.11.msoc1-1611.
One transgender patient draws upon his transition experiences to suggest strategies for health care professionals looking to be more responsive to transgender patients’ needs.
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(11):1139-1146. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.11.mnar1-1611.
Surgeons can have an impact on patients and communities that goes well beyond the operating room. This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss how the concept of "surgical justice" can help plastic surgeons deliver better care topatients and communities.
If health information is private, why do we know so much about Prince’s death? Critical legal and ethical questions remain unsettled about whether and when it is appropriate for medical examiners or coroners to release information from autopsy reports to the public.
AMA J Ethics. 2016; 18(8):839-842. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.8.msoc2-1608.
Dr Vivek H. Murthy joins Ethics Talk to discuss loneliness as a public health threat and the connection between loneliness, public health responsiveness, and the health of our democracy.