William J. Hercules joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr David A. Deemer: “What Should Health Professions Trainees Learn About Built Environment Activism?”

This commentary on a case suggests merits and drawbacks of shared decision-making as one approach to Certificate of Need assessments.

Hostile design discourages and limits use of a space and can make users feel unwelcome or unsafe.

This article offers examples of connections between built environments and health outcomes and regulation of built environments. 

Dr Christy A. Rentmeester joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Roles of Quiet in Health Care Organizations.”

What might be learned about undervaluing chaplaincy expertise, peace, and quiet in everyday operations of professional caregiving?

Skilled interactions in health care are those in which clinicians focus on making patients feel seen and heard and that their needs are important and can be met.

Ethically justifying human-centered research with only nonhuman animals as subjects likely requires that the research’s benefits to humans must, at least, outweigh harms suffered by the nonhuman animals.

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “The American Medical Association on the Ethics of Vivisection, 1880-1950.”

The American Medical Association was a major player in debates about vivisection in the late 1800s to mid-1950s.