In summary, the framework asks moral reasoners to distill background facts and identify all relevant stakeholders before articulating options for ethical action. Then, it encourages them to ask: ...

Several states have changed their policies in recent years to make involuntary commitment easier for people with severe mental illnesses. But forced treatment still raises civil rights questions, with ...

Medscape surveyed more than 5,200 physicians in more than 29 specialties to discover how they feel about the ethical issues they face in the medical field. The annual “Medscape Ethics Report 2018” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Involuntary treatment for homeless people aims to help – but also raises ethical debates. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Over the ...

The types of ethical dilemmas reported by the oncology nurses fell into 3 main categories: (a) truth telling, (b) conflicting obligations, and (c) futility. Similar concepts were grouped into 4 ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

“As the field of transgender health care has transitioned from pathologizing patients to a gender-affirming and patient-centered model and from an understanding of gender as binary to a fuller picture ...

There has already been rationing of testing in the United States and rationing of critical care resources is likely if severely ill COVID-19 patients surge significantly. The novel coronavirus ...

They should see ethical issues related to AI systems as an extension of their ethical duties. And let’s not forget the ethicists who are tasked with analyzing all these different ethical issues and ...