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It is a central principle in modern research ethics that the rights, safety, and well-being of research participants are the most important considerations. This should also apply to third-party individuals,...

Drawing upon firsthand accounts of GLP-1RA weight-loss drugs, this paper challenges the bioconservative view that effort is essential to self-control and the narrower view that obesity is simply a matter...

Clinical ethics consultation has become increasingly professionalized, yet many ethics consultants continue to maintain active clinical practice as physicians, nurses, or social workers. Despite the prevalence...

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Slow codes occupy a contested position in clinical ethics, yet systematic evidence on public attitudes toward this practice remains limited. In response to criticisms raised by Lu and Lederman…

This paper draws from a framework of virtue ethics and narrative medicine to present a content analysis and teaching resource of virtue-illustrating stories found in medical journals. As acquired dispositions,...

Our research team conducted a large-scale literature review of health humanities teaching publications to track the evolution of its methods, trends, and hints on where we might be headed. After decades...

This collaboratively written paper presents three case studies where researchers from the humanities and from biomedicine collaborated on topics related to health and medicine. This process-focused paper...

Shared Decision-Making (SDM) is a process wherein patients and clinicians make healthcare decisions collaboratively. There are two main versions of SDM. The first is narrow SDM, wherein the clinician’s...

Maintaining best practice around surgical consent is a core competency, yet in caring for older patients, it can be particularly challenging to meet these standards. Our research question was: In the...

Moral distress among healthcare clinicians is widely acknowledged but persistently misunderstood. The dominant institutional response has been to prescribe individual-level interventions, including resilience...

Processes of representative consent and individual assent for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the research context are intended to protect such individuals from the power...

Patients with serious illness hospitalized in the pediatric setting can receive support from Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) and Ethics Consultation (EC). However, empirical data on dual PPC-EC involvement...

Psychiatry is characterized by several distinctive features: (1) it sometimes provides treatment against a patient’s will or preferences; (2) it intervenes in patients’ minds through physico-chemical...

The question of when, if ever, healthcare professionals with conscientious objections should be accommodated by permitting them to refuse to provide medical interventions to which they morally object...

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Social prescribing to mitigate loneliness has been gaining traction worldwide in the past two decades. Patients found to be lonely by their clinicians are linked with social services and are encouraged...

While health humanities baccalaureate and graduate programs have been increasing in recent years, little is known about the further education and career paths of program graduates or how a health humanities...

Safer supply is a medical form of harm reduction in which a patient is prescribed a drug to which they are addicted. Despite ample high-quality evidence that it is a safe and effective last-line treatment...

In this paper, I argue for an expansion of moral concern in bioethics beyond sentience-based and status-based frameworks. Drawing on Lukács' and Honneth's work on reification, I show that even where...

A common conflation happens both in everyday discussions in medicine as well as in the medical literature—namely, equating ‘parents of minors’ with ‘surrogate decision makers.’ It is important...