Seven photos taken in Flint illuminate environmental injustice, the city’s attempts to respond, and individuals’ experiences.

By cultivating cultural humility, physicians can address not only stereotypes and biases but also power inequalities and community inequities.

An educational initiative is described in which medical and bioethics students observe health care in an urban jail for two days and reflect on their learning.

Clinicians have an ethical obligation to provide high-quality care to incarcerated and justice-involved patients, which means being knowledgeable and empathic about the challenges these patients face. This month, we explore patient, student, and clinician perspectives on correctional health care.

Incorporate palliative care ethics into research, education, practice, and systems design to reduce moral distress.

Hospital medicine must expand its mission to include the teaching of medical ethics, professionalism, and communication to trainees during clinical rounds.

Physicians’ reliance on “culture” to explain patients’ noncompliance may serve as code for their discomfort with difference, uncertainty, and distress.

Transparency about teaching hospitals’ educational mission respects patient autonomy and aligns patients’ interests with those of trainees and the public.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Subha Perni, MD, a recent graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, interviewed Elizabeth Epstein, PhD, RN, about strategies for understanding and address moral distress in clinical settings.

Medical education must acknowledge the problematic use of race as a biological or epidemiological risk factor in research and the controversy over race.