Ethics

Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the seventh installment. Unlike the loose fun of the last ones, where we explored what ethical…

I read Travis’s article about “Virtue Ethics,” and his words made me smile. He captured the essence of why I have long supported virtue ethics. It’s…

I debated for quite a while whether to reply to Sarah Brady’s article. However, I felt I should do so, if only to offer another perspective…

“I had a patient just this week who, as I was about to give her intravenous sedation, said, ‘Isn’t this illegal? Didn’t they stop…

Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the sixth installment! This is the third part of the Normative Ethics section, an area focused…

Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the fifth installment! This is the second part of the Normative Ethics section, an area focused…

Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the fourth installment! This is the first part of the Normative Ethics section, where we will…

A normal part of being in the medical field is being confronted with death. We talk about it in textbooks filled with statistical terms…

Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the third installment! This is the final part in the metaethics series before we move on…

Surrogacy has been a hotly contested legal topic, with opponents arguing it commodifies children and reduces the female body to an incubator, and proponents…