AMA Journal of Ethics

Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice.

Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector.

Testing everyone for everything identifies more fetal conditions, but confusion persists about whether clinicians should leave screening decisions to patients.

For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

Criteria in statutes and tests used to diagnose brain death don’t always jibe, and this can undermine public trust in death pronouncements.