Second-Victim Phenomenon
How can we properly attend to the health of both patient and physician when unintended harm occurs?
From Picking Fruit to Buying It: The Health of California Farmworkers
When we buy fruit at the grocery store, we often fail to realize the intensive and undervalued human labor that goes into growing and harvesting that fruit.
The Ethics of Philosophical Exemptions
Given the threat to public health, what bar should a claim to philosophical exemption from vaccination need to clear?
What It Means to Legalize Euthanasia
Societal acceptance of physician-assisted suicide has been growing, but the costs aren't always so easy to see.
Depression, “Special K,” and the FDA
A powerful new antidepressant is set to hit the market, but should the FDA be in the business of fast-tracking drug approval based on need?
The Ethics of Vaccination Exemptions
The recent measles outbreak in Washington should prompt us to reexamine how we balance public health and individual religious conviction.
Australia’s Pill Testing and Different Versions of Harm Minimization
This article examines the ethical implications of measuring the purity of the ingredients drugs so recreational users can be informed about the substances.
Sparking Joy: The Ethics of Medically-Induced Happiness
What should our outlook be on "medically induced" happiness? Is it the same as "natural" happiness?
Our Bodies, Ourselves? Death, Values, and the Material We Leave Behind
Autopsies and exhumations: what are our duties to the dead?
Passing the Mirror Test and the Wrong of Pain
We often define the moral community on the basis of whether a being is self-aware or not. But what happens when our scientific conceptions of consciousness change?