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Articles on Medical Ethics

Material on clinical ethics and patient care

  • Although AI therapy may have acute benefits, it may also enhance chronic depression and anxiety. This may lead users to false complacency that their issues are being treated, when in reality the root cause is not addressed.

  • The simultaneous COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement highlighted the need to address systemic racism in the practice and delivery of health care.

  • An ethical analysis

    Issues include overselling, access, and the dangers of utopianism.

  • A talk on the ethics of end-of-life decision making.

  • Cases and Comments

    Cases and commentaries raise ethical issues on the management of seasonal influenza.

  • The Ethics of Rationing

    Ethics case study on prioritizing patients

  • The Ethics of Staying Home

    Should infected people self-quarantine?

  • Ethical issues in creating a market for human organs.

  • Rights and Responsibilities

    A conference held at Santa Clara University in November 2011 explores conscientious refusals in health care.

  • The role of financial burden in ethical decision making.