AMA Journal of Ethics

The AMA’s Historic Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection includes images of quack devices from the early 20th century that generated oversight we now take for granted.

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "How Pseudoscience Generated US Material and Device Regulations"

A canvas of hand-carved woodblock prints in red ink and gold acrylic lettering offers a visual representation of physicians’ impulses to practice healing.

A deep spirit of resilience and a desire for innovation, discovery, and justice compel health workers to retain their commitment to serving patients and communities.

Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.

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.

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