Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2026)

From aggressive billing practices to neglectful or discriminatory care, news stories about the misconduct of healthcare organizations abound. Yet there has been limited ethical scrutiny of hospital...

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Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 9, 2025)

Postdoctoral Associate- Bioethics

“Suffering” is a central concept within bioethics and often a crucial consideration in medical decision making. As used in practice, however, the concept risks being uninformative, ambiguous, or ev...

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I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

Increasing interest in deploying artificial intelligence tools in clinical contexts has raised several ethical questions of both normative and empirical interest. One such question in the literatur...

Suffering at the Margins: Non-Experiential Suffering and Disorders of Consciousness

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is approved under a humanitarian device exemption to manage treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (TR-OCD) in adults. It is possible that DBS may be trialed...

Some have hypothesized that talk about suffering can be used by clinicians to motivate difficult decisions, especially to argue for reducing treatment at the end of life. We examined how talk about...

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2025)

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 24, No. 7, 2024)

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Patients who experience difficulty making medical decisions are often referred to as “ambivalent.” However, the current lack of attention to the nuances between a cluster of phenomena that resemble...