Dr Robert I. Field joins Ethics Talk to discuss whether and to what extent private equity firms’ increasing presence in health care deserves our scrutiny and what policy makers, clinicians, and patients should know about responding to private equity ownership stakes in the organizations where they work and where they go for health services.

AMA's focus on health care for persons who are incarcerated was in response to the US Supreme Court’s 1964 Cooper v Pate holding.

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Foundations of Carceral Health Care Came From a Right to Sue.”

This article examines use of the US Food and Drug Administration’s expanded access pathway to permit cardiac xenotransplants.

Laurie Sellars joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Jeff Sebo: “How Should Treatment of Animals Beyond the Lab Factor Into Institutional Review?”

The American Medical Association was a major player in debates about vivisection in the late 1800s to mid-1950s.

Nonhuman animals used in biomedical research frequently suffer and are harmed as part of their use as experimental models.

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “The American Medical Association on the Ethics of Vivisection, 1880-1950.”

Dr David DeGrazia joins Ethics Talk to discuss why the “3 R’s” of nonhuman animal research might not be sufficient to promote good science, ethics, and nonhuman animal welfare.

Humans make critical decisions about nonhuman lab animals outside the lab: during breeding, transportation, and end-of-study protocols.