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Ethics Talk: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID and Beyond

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In this video and podcast edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park about the resurgence of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Vivian Shaw, PhD is a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.

Susanna Park, MA is a PhD candidate at Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

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Recorded on April 19, 2021

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Interviewees had no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.

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Ethics Talk: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and COVID-19

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Carla Perissinotto about the health consequences of social isolation and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Medical Education
Dec 2020

How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses

Farah Fourcand, MD and Diana M. Barratt, MD, MPH
For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E1010-1018. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1010.
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Podcast
Dec 2020

Ethics Talk: How Do We Know Who’s Dead?

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.
Medicine and Society
Jul 2021

Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability

Camille Kroll, MA
Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E537-541. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.537.
Medicine and Society
Jul 2021

How Pharmaceuticals Mask Health and Social Inequity

Enrico G. Castillo, MD, MSHPM and Joel Tupper Braslow, MD, PhD
Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(7):E542-549. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.542.
Art of Medicine
Sep 2020

Data, Decisions, White Coats

Christine Lynn Chen
This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E818-820. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.818.
Personal Narrative
Dec 2018

Trafficked

Stephen P. Wood, MS, ACNP
Identifying patients who are trafficked is key to caring well for these vulnerable adults and children. But labeling patients as trafficked can stigmatize patients if clinicians aren’t trained well in trauma-informed care.
AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(12):E1212-1216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1212.