Hot Topics: Justice
by Richard B. Gibson
Ensuring that healthcare resources are made available to those in the greatest need of them – be that individuals, groups, populations, or countries – is not only a matter of public health but also one of ethics.…
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by Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD
Another day, another headline to stoke fear in the minds and hearts of immigrants. This one did not come from the federal government but was based on the statements of Governor Pete Ricketts of Nebraska.…
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by Steven H. Miles, MD
In 1986, guards were transporting Mr. Vinson Harris, a Black prisoner, from Mecklenburg County Jail to Butner Penitentiary in Lewisburg Pennsylvania He was forced to wear a painful hard black box around his wrists.…
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Leah Zallman's meticulous research helps us all to tell the story of what immigrants give to this nation and what they should receive from this nation.
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by Asma Fazal, MD, MRCPI, MHSc
Offering sanctuary to those fleeing conflicts is the most pressing human rights issue in the world today.…
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by Craig Klugman
In a startling whistleblower report, Dawn Looten who is a licensed nurse practitioner at the Irwin County (GA) Detention Center (ICDC) stated that patients were denied COVID tests, medical records were altered and destroyed, and most disturbingly, that a very high number of hysterectomies were performed on detained immigrant women who may not have understood what was being done to them.…
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by Sweta Dubey MBBS & Siddhesh Zadey BSMS
For the first time in human history, over 3.9 billion people in about ninety countries around the world were contained in lockdowns as of the first week of April.…
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Keisha Ray, Ph.D.
Recently the term black bioethics has been having its moment. With the world’s recently increased attention to racial justice, institutional racism, and medical racism, there has been more attention to the relationship between black people and health and health care. …
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by Daniel Du Pont, MD, MBE and Jill Baren, MD, MS, MBA, FACEP, FAAP
The novel coronavirus outbreak, like any pandemic, has brought with it many difficult choices.…
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by Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP, FCCM
In my previous article, Unblinded, I challenged the actions of using the crisis standards of care scoring systems to allocate scares resources like ventilators and argued against a color-blind ideology.…
Full ArticlePox Parties for Grannies? Chickenpox, Exogenous Boosting, and Harmful Injustices
Reassessing the Ethics of Molecular HIV Surveillance in the Era of Cluster Detection and Response: Toward HIV Data Justice
Ambulance Charters during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Equitable Access to Scarce Resources
Ethics Lessons From Seattle’s Early Experience With COVID-19
Positive Public Health Ethics: Toward Flourishing and Resilient Communities and Individuals
Should Extremely Premature Babies Get Ventilators During the COVID-19 Crisis?
Eliminating Categorical Exclusion Criteria in Crisis Standards of Care Frameworks
Yesterday’s Child: How Gene Editing for Enhancement Will Produce Obsolescence—and Why It Matters
Impartiality and infectious disease: Prioritizing individuals versus the collective in antibiotic prescription
Vaccine hesitancy has been an important topic for discussion regarding the #COVID19 vaccine. “How can medical and public health leaders work to overcome this hesitancy? To start with, acknowledge the historical reasons for black mistrust of medicine.”
Full ArticleA big component of vaccine distribution has been utilizing ethics to determine vaccine prioritization. Issac Chotiner of The New Yorker speaks with immunologist Barry Bloom to discuss what goes into making decisions on vaccine distribution.
Full Article“The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic revealed that a country’s wealth would not spare it from the virus. Overconfidence, poor planning and ignored warnings felled the world’s richest nations. But now, money is translating into undeniable advantages.”
Full ArticleWith efficacious medications available, ethics considers who has access to these drugs and who is at risk of losing them. Under COVID-19, the pandemic has accelerated the growth of many health disparities in the United States. Recently, there has been an increase in “pharmacy deserts”, where people struggle to fill medications locally because the drugs are no longer covered by Medicare of Medicaid.
Full ArticleWhy has vaccine distribution fallen into disarray across the United States? Lack of funding and coordination between state and local governments has left citizens confused about their vaccination opportunities. What will come in year 2 of COVID-19?
Full ArticleTesting is essential to our fight against #COVID-19. Have you thought about those that give tests to millions of Americans daily? Testing teams are grappling with burnout as these surges approach. How can we consider this population in ethics?
Full Article“As the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the racial inequalities in the United States’ health care system, entrepreneurs in genetic research are speaking out about the importance of encouraging community outreach to combat those disparities and increasing diversity inside their own industry.”
Full Article“In the imminent future, patients will start to die because there simply aren’t enough people to care for them. Doctors and nurses will burn out. The most precious resource the U.S. health-care system has in the struggle against COVID-19 isn’t some miracle drug. It’s the expertise of its health-care workers—and they are exhausted.”
Full ArticleAmong healthcare workers, nurses have been at significant risk for contracting #COVID19 compared to their counterparts. What types of precautions are being made by institutions to avoid this? Are they doing enough? What more needs to be done?
Full ArticleIncarcerated populations are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 due to factors like overcrowding, confined spaces, and much more. It is imperative we consider this for access. Check out this piece in the NEJM about inclusion of these populations.
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