AMA Journal of Ethics

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

Public awareness of brain death is based largely on inaccurate media representations. It’s no wonder so few of us understand brain death.

Since 1995, the American Academy of Neurology has provided guidelines for brain death determination, but nationwide adherence to these guidelines has been incomplete.

Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult.

All of us are called upon to support candidates who personify respect, compassion, and empathy if we hope to realize a more fair and just future.

Matt Wuerker talks about his artistic process in creating cartoons that speak to matters of politics and policy arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Alister Martin talks about the importance of helping patients get registered to vote especially during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Key policy changes would better situate clinicians to prescribe care in ways that are ethical, safe, and effective.

Driven by toxic, unpredictable, unregulated supply, drug overdose deaths are rampant. Policies that support the war on drugs have to change to be helpful.

Pharma has long marketed opioids in ways that contribute to opioid use disorder and deaths by overdose. Regulatory mistakes in approving and labeling new analgesics by the FDA didn’t make us safer.