Research and training are needed so that physicians are able to identify human trafficking victims and refer them to appropriate trauma-informed treatment.

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

The principle of double effect and proportionate reason can be a useful way of assessing actions as moral or immoral.

Physicians need to carefully explain the difficult medical realities of carrying a fetus with severe congenital abnormalities to term but then follow the wishes of a religious family who ask for reasonable medical care.

Physicians need to carefully explain the difficult medical realities of carrying a fetus with severe congenital abnormalities to term but then follow the wishes of a religious family who ask for reasonable medical care.

US case law protects a woman's right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment for her fetus on religious grounds.

Religious commitment supports a faith-based health clinic in its efforts to serve the poor patient population in its Chicago community.

The default principle—that someone is free to do what he or she desires in the absence of a compelling reason why he or she should not—may make it possible to resolve ethical disputes without recourse to a particular moral framework.

Julian Savulescu's writing on conscientious objection is guided by an emphasis on the principle of distributive justice that does not allow religion to have a special status as justification.

The range of opinions on the extent to which physicians should attend to their patients’ spiritual lives and the arguments that support those opinions.