Intergenerational trauma has deep roots, which require clinicians to understand historical and cultural context when working with vulnerable children.

How society and medicine discussed and responded to child abuse changed dramatically in 1962. Since that time, the problem’s fuller scope has been revealed.

This drawing considers the importance of understanding history’s role in contextualizing many patients’ present-day health care experiences.

Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin joins Ethics Talk to consider how members of different US Supreme Courts have interpreted the US Constitution in ways that have supported or undermined liberty in surprising ways.

Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to consider key questions about clinical and legal risk management for clinicians trying keep patients safe and for patients with complex pregnancies trying to stay alive.

Under-resourced and fragmented public health infrastructure has contributed to a poor pandemic response in the United States.

David Simon, JD joins Ethics Talk to help untangle economic incentives driving industrialization of meat.

Dr Temple Grandin joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Answers to Patient, Student, and Clinician Questions About How Animals Are Slaughtered and Used for Food.”

This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients.

Dr Carmen Black joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Andrea Shamaskin-Garroway, Dr E. Mimi Arquilla, Elizabeth Roessler, and Dr Kirsten M. Wilkins: “Undoing Institutional and Racial Trauma Through Interprofessional, Trauma-Informed Education.”