A recent NBC investigative series titled “Dealing the Dead" revealed that thousands of unclaimed bodies were used by the University of North Texas Health Science Center for scientific research and medical education, and to generate profit. These findings raise important ethical questions around the need for ongoing transparency and accountability concerning the use of the deceased in medical research and education.

Clinical ethicists should engage with the injustices of mass incarceration in the United States.

After several decades of being a prolific bioethicist, I am no longer sure I can afford to pay the open-access fees to publish in the field.

The suggestion that obesity is a preventable disease has been weighing heavily on my mind ever since I read a recent article in the Hastings Center Report. The article claims to focus on “ethical, policy, and public health concerns” related to anti-obesity medications, but there is a strong undercurrent of bias throughout. As an endocrinologist who specializes in medical weight management, my clinical experience informs my understanding that obesity is almost never entirely preventable, but bias against those with obesity certainly is.

Louisiana recently became the first U.S. state to permit judges to order surgical castration of sex offenders.

Patients who are members of marginalized groups—women, Black people, trans people, elderly people, disabled people—are often dismissed, minimized, or altogether ignored by health care professionals. Over time, this can lead to gaslighting in which patients question their thoughts, feelings, symptoms, even themselves.

The National Academies “Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All” is the 2024 follow-up to its 2003 seminal predecessor “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial Bias and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.” A noticeable difference between them is reflected in their titles; whereas the 2003 version made us aware of the systemic causes of racial disparities in health outcomes, the latest edition has moved beyond naming the problem to naming solutions.

Today’s wars kill far more civilians than soldiers. Bioethics must address war not just as an individual tragedy but as a public health disaster.

Case Narrative W is a 32-year-old man with heart failure. Prior to diagnosis he was relatively healthy and physically fit. A trial of medication was not effective. Some members of...

Last month, Netflix premiered the documentary Tell Them You Love Me, the story of former Rutgers University professor Anna Stubblefield, who was convicted of first-degree aggravated sexual assault in 2015...