Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995. Viewpoint Feb 2016 Can Social Media Help Increase the Organ Supply While Avoiding Exploitation and Trafficking? Gowri Kabbur Social media platforms and organizational websites that facilitate organ procurement should respect potential donors’ autonomy and confidentiality. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(2):115-121. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.conl1-1602. Art of Medicine Sep 2020 Arches of St John’s Richard Wu This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E812-813. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.812. AMA Code Says Feb 2016 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Relevant to Organ Transplantation and Procurement Bette-Jane Crigger, PhD The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to organ donors’ informed, voluntary decisions and equitable distribution of organs and tissues. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(2):122-125. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.2.coet1-1602. In the Literature Oct 2018 Why Marginalization, Not Vulnerability, Can Best Identify People in Need of Special Medical and Nutrition Care Alexis K. Walker, PhD and Elizabeth L. Fox, PhD Focusing on social processes contributing to marginalization can help clinicians and policy makers mitigate food insecurity risk through improved patient-centered care. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(10):E941-947. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.941. Case and Commentary Jun 2019 How Should Physicians Respond to Patient Requests for Religious Concordance? Jacob A. Blythe, MA and Farr A. Curlin, MD Patient-physician concordance is a matter of degree. In certain circumstances, greater concordance can motivate important goals of medicine. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(6):E485-492. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.485. Medicine and Society Nov 2019 What Hand Transplantation Teaches Us About Embodiment Brock Bahler, PhD Current QoL conversations in HTx could be enhanced by a phenomenological account of temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(11):E996-1002. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.996. Case and Commentary Jul 2019 Should Aggregate Patient Preference Data Be Used to Make Decisions on Behalf of Unrepresented Patients? Nathaniel Sharadin, PhD, MA Ethical and practical problems with preference modeling can undermine how reliably predictors can be used in high-stakes decisions. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(7):E566-574. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.566. History of Medicine May 2020 What Does the Evolution From Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making Teach Us About Authority in Health Care? James F. Childress, PhD and Marcia Day Childress, PhD Reliance on disclosure rather than understanding has prompted shared decision making and represents an important cultural change in clinical practice. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(5):E423-429. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.423. Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Case and Commentary Dec 2020 How Should Clinicians Respond When Patients’ Loved Ones Do Not See “Brain Death” as Death? Rabbi Jason Weiner, DBioethics and Rabbi Charles Sheer, MA, BCC Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(12):E995-1003. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.995.
Viewpoint Feb 2016 Can Social Media Help Increase the Organ Supply While Avoiding Exploitation and Trafficking? Gowri Kabbur Social media platforms and organizational websites that facilitate organ procurement should respect potential donors’ autonomy and confidentiality. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(2):115-121. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.18.2.conl1-1602.
Art of Medicine Sep 2020 Arches of St John’s Richard Wu This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E812-813. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.812.
AMA Code Says Feb 2016 AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Relevant to Organ Transplantation and Procurement Bette-Jane Crigger, PhD The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to organ donors’ informed, voluntary decisions and equitable distribution of organs and tissues. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(2):122-125. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.2.coet1-1602.
In the Literature Oct 2018 Why Marginalization, Not Vulnerability, Can Best Identify People in Need of Special Medical and Nutrition Care Alexis K. Walker, PhD and Elizabeth L. Fox, PhD Focusing on social processes contributing to marginalization can help clinicians and policy makers mitigate food insecurity risk through improved patient-centered care. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(10):E941-947. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.941.
Case and Commentary Jun 2019 How Should Physicians Respond to Patient Requests for Religious Concordance? Jacob A. Blythe, MA and Farr A. Curlin, MD Patient-physician concordance is a matter of degree. In certain circumstances, greater concordance can motivate important goals of medicine. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(6):E485-492. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.485.
Medicine and Society Nov 2019 What Hand Transplantation Teaches Us About Embodiment Brock Bahler, PhD Current QoL conversations in HTx could be enhanced by a phenomenological account of temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(11):E996-1002. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.996.
Case and Commentary Jul 2019 Should Aggregate Patient Preference Data Be Used to Make Decisions on Behalf of Unrepresented Patients? Nathaniel Sharadin, PhD, MA Ethical and practical problems with preference modeling can undermine how reliably predictors can be used in high-stakes decisions. AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(7):E566-574. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.566.
History of Medicine May 2020 What Does the Evolution From Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making Teach Us About Authority in Health Care? James F. Childress, PhD and Marcia Day Childress, PhD Reliance on disclosure rather than understanding has prompted shared decision making and represents an important cultural change in clinical practice. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(5):E423-429. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.423.
Medicine and Society Mar 2020 How Should We Judge Whether and When Mission Statements Are Ethically Deployed? Kellie E. Schueler and Debra B. Stulberg, MD Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E239-247. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.239.