For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives.

Dr Ariane Lewis discusses how we can navigate uncertainty and ambiguity about brain death by understanding clinical criteria for brain death determination and how our approaches to death are culturally and socially situated.

Invisibility of racial inequity and gender inclusion in clinical research means key features of disease etiology and symptom presentation are unaccounted for.

A history of device oversight by the US Food and Drug Administration traces regulatory changes in response to injuries caused by Dalkon Shield intrauterine devices.

Many devices in current use were marketed before manufacturers were required to demonstrate safety and effectiveness.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.