Will bioethics continue to exist and in what form? In the United States, where the discipline is most developed and institutionalized, it is under pressure.

At some point, it occurred to me that I could actually research the emotional burden of ethics cases on clinical ethicists. This was an epiphany.

Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company, announced that it has achieved a scientific first -- bringing back an extinct animal: the dire wolf. Crucial questions emerge about scientific hubris, playing God with cool new technological toys, and more.

History is informative in considering how bioethicists should respond to serious new threats to public health and well-being.

The framework below outlines three foundational ethical duties of health care institutions that can be enacted by leaders through policies, processes, and communication with their workforce: (1) the duty to plan for foreseeable situations with impact on patient care and institutional operations, (2) the duty to safeguard patient populations and the health care workforce, and (3) the duty of care, long understood as nonabandonment of patients.

I had never thought much about Alzheimer’s disease, other than to hope that I never suffer from it. But after attending a heavy metal concert, that condition began to weigh on my heart and mind. The songs the band performed that evening were about a character sliding into the mental abyss of Alzheimer’s disease.

Many think that the decision 20 years ago to permit Terri Schiavo to die was a victory for medical choice. On the contrary, her death triggered a series of events that have corroded individual control over medical care in the United States.

As an immigrant, a trained bioethicist, and a lawyer, I am intimately familiar with the impact of fear and injustice on immigrant communities. Maya Angelou’s profound words on courage resonate...

My brother-in-law Mark died a couple of weeks ago. He had struggled with schizophrenia for over 45 years, so at age 64 1/2, he had exceeded the average life expectancy...

What bioethics needs is a rich working definition of spirituality as a common dimension of human life.

We have well-developed playbooks on what health care providers and institutions should do immediately to welcome immigrant patients and make their facilities as safe as possible for them.

It’s time for the medical community to re-examine its relationship with alcohol -- moving away from using it as a reward, a stress reliever, or a social crutch, and instead, finding healthier alternatives.