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Ethics Talk: Fighting Global HIV/AIDS During the COVID Pandemic

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Chris Beyrer about the challenges facing the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH is the Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Ethics Talk: COVID Dermatologic Disparities Go More Than Skin Deep

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Jenna Lester about racial and ethnic disparities in dermatologic care and its contributions to health inequities during this COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. 

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Jenna Lester, MD is an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Global Climate Crisis

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Andrew Jameton about the global health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its intersection with the climate crisis.

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Andrew Jameton, PhD is a professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Social, and Behavioral Health at the University of Nebraska.

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Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19, Part 2

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In this video and audio edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Nancy Krieger about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism.

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Nancy Krieger, PhD is a professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

Part 1 of this conversation is here.

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Case and Commentary
Dec 2020

What Should We Do When Families Refuse Testing for Brain Death?

Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE, and Matthew Kirschen, MD, PhD
Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E986-994. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.986.
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.
Medicine and Society
Dec 2020

What Does the Public Need to Know About Brain Death?

Katharina M. Busl, MD, MS
Public awareness of brain death is based largely on inaccurate media representations. It’s no wonder so few of us understand brain death.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1047-1054. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1047.
Medicine and Society
Dec 2020

Death’s Troubled Relationship With the Law

Brendan Parent, JD and Angela Turi
Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(12):E1055-1061. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.1055.