Private equity investments in health care have grown to over $750 billion in the past decade and include every segment of the US health sector.

As more students, trainees, and clinicians engage in acts of professional resistance, professional accountability is needed when such acts influence patient care.

Dr Rachel Ellaway joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored Drs Lisa Graves and Tasha R. Wyatt: “How Should Professional Resistance Be Integrated Into Conceptions of Professional Accountability?”

A midwife in the 1800s deserves our attention following the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022.

Dr Suzanne Minor joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Arianna Tapia and Dr Sarah E. Stumbar: “Abortion in the Nineteenth Century Through the Lens of Ann Lohman.”

Modern epidemiological science developed as domestic and international infectious disease transmission accompanied industrialization and colonial military expansion.

Dr H. K. Quinn Valier joins Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “Lessons From the Political History of Epidemiology for Divisive Times.”

Hostile design discourages and limits use of a space and can make users feel unwelcome or unsafe.

Since the 1980s, science about how built environments influence human health has been used by architects, engineers, and designers to inform decisions about health care organizations’ structures and spaces.

This commentary on a case considers how physicians should respond when their pregnant patients’ health is physically and socially compromised.