Surgical research involving patients who are incarcerated is fraught with ethical, logistical, and practical questions.

Lawyer Cynthia Chandler joins Ethics Talk to discuss the practice of sterilization in California state prisons, and Dr Anthony Loria shares new research on surgical outcomes for incarcerated patients.

Data quality for and about American Indian/Alaska Native people is undermined by deeply entrenched, colonial practices that have become standard in US federal data systems. 

Abigail Echo-Hawk joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Sofia Locklear, Sarah McNally, Lannesse Baker, and Sacena Gurule: “How Should Epidemiologists Respond to Data Genocide?”

This visual abstract is based on an article from the July 2023 issue of the journal.

Individualistic approaches to the collective problem of climate change are ethically inadequate. 

Dr Lisa Fuller joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Organizations and Clinicians Help Marginalized Patients Manage Loneliness as a Harm of Climate Change?”

Systematic analysis of extant research ethics guidance is needed for conflict-affected countries and UN agencies.

Guidance from the Code addresses legitimacy and trustworthiness of information from unethical experimentation.

Immorally acquired information, from Nazi experimentation or other sources, infects the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge.