E. Berryhill McCarty, MA, MSHCPM and Lance Wahlert, PhD
Global transformation demanded by COVID-19 prompts consideration of how prior epidemics have shaped our cultural and sociological understandings of health care experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(5):E423-427. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.423.
Financial relationships are common, and ethical questions rightly emerge about how conflicts of interest compromise investigators’ approaches to research.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(9):E685-691. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.685.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres' and Gregg Bordowitz’s works express their experiences of living through a pandemic and subsequent social change and draw out key human rights themes.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E821-829. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.821.
Introduction of an intervention that reduces the perceived risk of a given behavior may cause a person to increase risky behavior—this is called “risk compensation.”