AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Since ageism contributes to global mental health inequity among older people, responding to their needs should be a clinical, ethical, and policy priority.

Dr Pamela B. Teaster joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Al O. Giwa: "Ageism as a Source of Global Mental Health Inequity.”

Risks posed by concentrated animal feeding operations to human health demand attention of clinicians and those who teach them.

Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world.

Dr Crystal M. Hayes joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anu Manchikanti Gomez: “Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice.”

This article addresses intergenerational trauma transmission, focusing on Japanese American and Southeast Asian American communities.

Dr Vivian Shaw and Ms Susanna Park talk about the invisibility of anti-Asian racism before, during and beyond this COVID-19 pandemic.

To achieve health equity, governments can use a variety of tools, including civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence.

Force feeding, unnecessary x-rays, misusing health information, and discharging unstable patients are classic dual-loyalty dilemmas reminiscent of the Holocaust.

Connections between racism and dehumanization have immediate, lethal, deleterious, longer-term consequences. Lessons from Nazi eugenics and human experimentation still apply.