Dr Madeline Ward joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why We Need to Stop Labeling Behaviors Influencing a Person’s Weight Ideal or Healthy."

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

Dr Emily Roberts joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Innovative Designs Can Help Ease Ethical Tension in Good Dementia Caregiving and Decision-Making.”

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.

Which distinctions between minimally conscious states and vegetative states should clinicians consider?

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

The diagnostic and clinical criteria for diagnosing persistent vegetative state.

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

As high-tech care decisions led to value clashes in hospital corridors, ethics committees developed to respond to diverse viewpoints, families’ concerns, and clinicians’ moral distress. They now exist in almost all US health care organizations.