AMA Journal of Ethics

Drs Alicia Best and Faith Fletcher talk about building trustworthiness by advancing equity and inclusion in bioethics and public health.

The model minority myth has far-reaching implications for Asian Americans in many settings, including medicine.

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

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

Pediatricians have obligations to find causes of children’s stress and respond with care to their clinical and social vulnerabilities.

Responding well means navigating ongoing grief, restoring self-community and human-ecological relationships, and generating cultural vibrancy.

Dr Zoe Tao and Dr Michael Oldani join Ethics Talk to discuss how learning about transgenerational trauma can help clinicians motivate health equity, especially among historically marginalized groups like Native American and First Nations communities.

Respecting patient autonomy while seeking to understand patients’ unique perspectives can strengthen patient-surgeon relationships.

Furthering clinicians’ understandings of how daily practice can respond to Black patients' experiences can help restore trust and mitigate racial and ethnic health inequity.

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