Dr Pamela B. Teaster joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss public health ethics teaching during the waning COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Chad M. Teven joins Ethics Talk to unravel some current and a few hoped-for surgical applications of AI and to model for us how we should be critically engaging with AI surgical research and scholarship.

Despite concerns about clinical outcomes for patients with obesity, clinical trials report few data about such patients.

Use of body mass index as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery.  

Underlying ideological foundations of stigma and equipment inadequacy include thin-centrism and inadequate representation of fat people in health care organizational leadership.  

Diagnostic utility of weight and body mass index is widely overestimated, and their use as health and wellness measures can be sources of iatrogenic harm. 

Dania Pagarkar joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Erin Harrop and Lisa Erlanger: “How Should We Approach Body Size Diversity in Clinical Trials?”

While transgender health care has moved beyond “gender identity disorder” and “gender dysphoria” as mental illnesses, gender incongruence continues to be a source of oppression.

Trust is a social condition that positions science to beneficially contribute to democratic societies.

American physician assistant students trained in South Africa to study an example of a reverse innovation practice that could be incorporated in the US.