Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing”.

Dr Jeanne Kisacky joins Ethics Talk to discuss changes in hospital design from the late 1800s to the present, and human-centered design specialist John Meyer explains how “design thinking” can help health professionals provide better care for patients.

Kevin Hosseini’s painting of his tutor’s dog, Bella.

Using expedited partner therapy to treat certain STDs entails clinical and ethical risks and benefits.

Using expedited partner therapy to treat certain STDs entails clinical and ethical risks and benefits.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

Research is critical to the development of public policy as it relates to the need for expedited therapy for the partners of patients with a sexually transmitted disease.

The harms of communicating autism risk can be avoided by helping families to understand risk and to distinguish between poor and good sources of scientific information, which should take families’ interests into account.

In treating children with autism, physicians should reframe the common dynamic in which the family wants medication that the doctor is withholding to focus instead on the family’s and physician’s share goal—the patient’s well-being.