Scott Schweikart joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Clinicians in Government.”

In the September 2014 issue on physicians as agents of social change, Dr. Audiey Kao, editor-in-chief of Virtual Mentor interviewed Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development or USAID.

The adverse health effects of climate change should be the focus of physician advocacy efforts and of conversations between physicians and their patients.

The implications of genetic explanations for behavioral traits such as violence and the public’s interpretations of them.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit.

Physicians need to become more involved in the public debate regarding issues of medicine, science, and evolution.

Physicians should take part in public health advocacy to improve health care for all patients.

Physicians need to educate patients about nutrition to counter the plethora of media images that promote poor dietary habits.

A digital record of place history and environmental context can provide a piece of clinically relevant information to help physicians understand what toxins patients may have been exposed to.

The journal invites students to share their medical training observations captured in photographs by highlighting a drawing of a DNA double helix as a symbol for the role of ethics in genetic research.