Medicine

Information sharing during the pandemic suggests a desperate need to make clear exactly what it means to trust in science.

Are doctors violating their professional code in choosing who they will or will not treat, or, as always, simply minimizing their patients' risk and possible harm?

How can we honor our obligation to those in need without creating additional kinds of unfairness?

Are there any good moral reasons for refusing to experiment with willing participants in the face of an emergency?

What kind of compassion and consideration can be shown to those we do not believe and lack the ability to trust?

What constraints, if any, should we place on the freedom to pursue physician-assisted suicide, especially when it comes to those whose reasoning may be impaired?

The promise of organ printing raises important questions about how we understand our physical makeup.

Our dedication to the value of efficiency means that the historically marginalized stay marginalized.

The growing sense of unease, distress, and exhaustion that many experience is a symptom of a political and social disease.

Empathy may not be the only obstacle standing in the way of depoliticizing mask use.

Our basic equality needs to be respected in processes that determine who gets what.

On what basis should we decide where our limited medical resources go? What is just? What is fair? Is any decision unobjectionable?

With no evidence of effectiveness and some troubling threads in its doctrines, AA has a powerful reputation it hasn't earned.

The retraction of three papers on treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine reflect a crisis in the scientific community: how to handle data from private companies. What reforms are necessary to avoid such data-based scandals in the future?

Those in rural areas face a significantly higher risk of death from common causes than their urban counterparts. Is telemedicine the solution to this disparity?

Is healthcare like any other consumer good in the marketplace or does it occupy a privileged position that requires special protections? Our answer has far-reaching implications.

Egg donation holds invaluable promise for many, but it is also rife with societal implications for all.

The recent passing of Belgian Paralympian Marieke Vervoort prompts reflection on the thorny issues surrounding aid in dying legislation.

NDs and MDs are both concerned for the public's health and patient autonomy, but is formally distinguishing NDs from unlicensed practitioners an advancement of, or a hindrance to, those goals?

A recent case highlights the conflict between paternalism and autonomy in the medical field. In what sense might one's decision to pursue an experimental treatment not be one's own?