Patients’ adherence to recommendations can unjustly influence their candidacy for a current intervention.

Critical race theory tools of evaluating stock characters and counter stories can help clinicians and researchers illuminate experiences of those at the margins.

Medicine has always maintained social, political, and economic structures that have exacerbated Black and Brown persons’ lived embodiment of racism.

Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences.

If the safe-and-effective standard for judging devices’ potential as therapy or enhancement is inadequate, one might wonder whether BCI regulation should be overseen by the FDA.

Dr Charles Binkley joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Michael Politz and Dr Brian Green: "Who, If Not the FDA, Should Regulate Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Devices?"

Like most extreme behaviors, excessive videogame playing functions as a cover or adaptive mechanism for underlying anxiety and depression. Compulsive gaming, like all pathological solutions (alcohol, drugs, gambling) makes a bad situation worse.

Dichotomies, such as reconstructive vs aesthetic surgery and medical vs cosmetic dermatology, can distort meanings of surgical procedures. This can compromise the value of procedures themselves and practices for their reimbursement.

Some allopathic clinicians’ biases influence the information they draw upon to make decisions and offer recommendations.

Aminta Kouyate joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Nhi Tran and Monica U. Hahn: “Why Professionalism Demands Abolition of Carceral Approaches to Patients’ Nonadherence Behaviors.”