AMA Journal of Ethics

For health professions and ethics journals, decisions about what is published and promoted profoundly influence humanity’s well-being across time and place.

False information undermines health and exacerbates disabilities. Constitutional rights to free speech come with responsibilities. Clinicians and citizens have duties to counter false health information.

Clinicians’ assessments of laboring women’s clinical needs must be prioritized ethically and legally.

COVID-19 reminds us that hand hygiene is key to individual and public health, but many of us cannot access clean water.

This watercolor painting looks to our 20th-century ancestors who fought to establish their, and many of our, voting rights.

Because climate change will likely exacerbate national and international health inequity, this comic considers our future.

When responding to an ad for a job caring for patient-detainees along the US southern border, applicants should anticipate the need to navigate dual loyalties.

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

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.

Perils of physicians intentionally harming individuals in errant attempts to strengthen a community have been illuminated by the Holocaust.