Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing”.

Using crowdsourced information in health professions education can help motivate critical appraisal, question asking, and evidence evaluation skill development, especially among “digital natives.”

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

What are insurance, contract, and criminal law implications of detecting Alzheimer’s disease early?

Kevin Hosseini’s painting of his tutor’s dog, Bella.

Ethics questions about care of patients with AD could influence clinicians’ judgment about whether and when to recommend aducanumab.

A judicious approach to autism would be to replace a “disability” or “illness” paradigm with a “diversity” perspective that takes into account both strengths and weaknesses and the idea that variation can be positive in and of itself.