Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent 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. Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18. Medicine and Society Feb 2021 How Can the Experiences of Black Women Living With HIV Inform Equitable and Respectful Reproductive Health Care Delivery? Faith E. Fletcher, PhD, MA, Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, PhD, MPH, Julie Attys, MPH, and Whitney S. Rice, DrPH, MPH Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E156-165. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.156. Health Law Jun 2023 What’s Wrong With Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender Adolescents? Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E414-420. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.414. Case and Commentary Jan 2004 Physician Activism and Civil Disobedience, Commentary 2 Barry DeCoster, MA Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(1):20-23. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.1.ccas3-0401. Policy Forum Mar 2018 Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures Claire Wendland, MD, PhD Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):278-287. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.pfor2-1803. Policy Forum Nov 2016 Transgender Reproductive Choice and Fertility Preservation Khadija Mitu, PhD Transgender people planning a medical transition face decisions about family planning, fertility preservation, and how to access gender-affirming treatment. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(11):1119-1125. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.11.pfor2-1611. Case and Commentary Jun 2009 Physicians' Duty to Be Aware of and Report Environmental Toxins, Commentary 2 Steven R. Kirkhorn, MD, MPH The physician’s duty extends beyond treating individual patients to reporting public health threats when they are identified. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(6):437-442. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.6.ccas2-0906. Health Law Aug 2010 The LGBT Community, Health Policy, and the Law Ryan Bailey Recent legislative and regulatory actions extend equal protection under the law to members of the LGBT community. Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):658-662. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.hlaw1-1008.
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.
Case and Commentary Jan 2021 How Should a Physician Respond to Discovering Her Patient Has Been Forcibly Sterilized? Rebecca Kluchin, PhD Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E18-25. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.18.
Medicine and Society Feb 2021 How Can the Experiences of Black Women Living With HIV Inform Equitable and Respectful Reproductive Health Care Delivery? Faith E. Fletcher, PhD, MA, Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, PhD, MPH, Julie Attys, MPH, and Whitney S. Rice, DrPH, MPH Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives. AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E156-165. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.156.
Health Law Jun 2023 What’s Wrong With Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender Adolescents? Scott J. Schweikart, JD, MBE This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(6):E414-420. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.414.
Case and Commentary Jan 2004 Physician Activism and Civil Disobedience, Commentary 2 Barry DeCoster, MA Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(1):20-23. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.1.ccas3-0401.
Policy Forum Mar 2018 Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures Claire Wendland, MD, PhD Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(3):278-287. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.pfor2-1803.
Policy Forum Nov 2016 Transgender Reproductive Choice and Fertility Preservation Khadija Mitu, PhD Transgender people planning a medical transition face decisions about family planning, fertility preservation, and how to access gender-affirming treatment. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(11):1119-1125. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.11.pfor2-1611.
Case and Commentary Jun 2009 Physicians' Duty to Be Aware of and Report Environmental Toxins, Commentary 2 Steven R. Kirkhorn, MD, MPH The physician’s duty extends beyond treating individual patients to reporting public health threats when they are identified. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11(6):437-442. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2009.11.6.ccas2-0906.
Health Law Aug 2010 The LGBT Community, Health Policy, and the Law Ryan Bailey Recent legislative and regulatory actions extend equal protection under the law to members of the LGBT community. Virtual Mentor. 2010;12(8):658-662. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.8.hlaw1-1008.