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 Mar 2022 Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice Crystal M. Hayes, PhD, MSW and Anu Manchikanti Gomez, PhD Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(3):E188-193. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.188. Health Law Mar 2020 Which Legal Approaches Help Limit Harms to Patients From Clinicians’ Conscience-Based Refusals? Rachel Kogan, JD, Katherine L. Kraschel, JD, and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E209-216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.209. 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. 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. Policy Forum Sep 2004 Choice in Planning and Experiencing Childbirth Lynn P. Freedman, JD, MPH, Rana E. Barar, and Ann M. Drobnik, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(9):409-413. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.9.pfor1-0409. History of Medicine Feb 2012 Federal Sterilization Policy: Unintended Consequences Susan P. Raine, JD, MD, LLM In the past, forced sterilizations violated the autonomy of vulnerable women. Today, measures intended to protect such women from the abuses of the past may in fact hamper their autonomy in a different way. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(2):152-157. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.2.mhst1-1202.
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 Mar 2022 Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice Crystal M. Hayes, PhD, MSW and Anu Manchikanti Gomez, PhD Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(3):E188-193. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.188.
Health Law Mar 2020 Which Legal Approaches Help Limit Harms to Patients From Clinicians’ Conscience-Based Refusals? Rachel Kogan, JD, Katherine L. Kraschel, JD, and Claudia E. Haupt, PhD, JSD When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E209-216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.209.
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.
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.
Policy Forum Sep 2004 Choice in Planning and Experiencing Childbirth Lynn P. Freedman, JD, MPH, Rana E. Barar, and Ann M. Drobnik, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2004;6(9):409-413. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2004.6.9.pfor1-0409.
History of Medicine Feb 2012 Federal Sterilization Policy: Unintended Consequences Susan P. Raine, JD, MD, LLM In the past, forced sterilizations violated the autonomy of vulnerable women. Today, measures intended to protect such women from the abuses of the past may in fact hamper their autonomy in a different way. Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(2):152-157. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.2.mhst1-1202.