AMA Journal of Ethics

Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives.

Pregnant women at high risk for heritable diseases need support and nondirective genetic counseling.

Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

Clinicians diagnosing and treating potentially trafficked patients with co-occurring addiction and mental illness should guard against expressing negative biases.

Parents want their child with severe disabilities to be accorded the same respect a healthy child gets, including a physical exam in the ER to diagnose and perhaps treat a minor illness unrelated to his or her impairments.