AI, Wicked Problems, and Health Care Distributive Justice
Health care in the United States is extraordinarily expensive. To be precise, in 2024, total health spending in the US was about $5.1 trillion...
Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership...
The Nature of Health and Disease in Clinical Settings
Consider a 50-year-old man named Doug who notices that his energy level and libido are lower than they used to be. He feels something...
Valuation Pipelines in AI
Let’s be honest. The last AI conference you attended was probably littered with ethical buzzwords (fairness, privacy, accountability, transparency, safety…) whose actual meanings are...
History, Hospitals, and Health Disparities
In the early days of COVID-19, I was a bioethics fellow at Johns Hopkins, and I became involved with several efforts to evaluate the...
Trading Time for Tissue: The Morality of Organ Donation Programs in Prisons
In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a...
The Process of Dying: Physiology and Philosophy of The End of Life
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía...
The Increasing Global Biosecurity Threat: Room for Philosophical Input
According to the World Health Organization, the global biosecurity threat is increasing. One reason is that genetic editing and synthesis technologies are advancing and...
How to Save Honesty in Human Subject Research
In human subject research, we often face an ethical question: is it ever justifiable to deceive participants? After all, deception can be effective in...
BMI Restrictions & Reproductive Justice in the “Ozempic Baby” Era
* Content note: Please note that this article addresses sensitive topics related to body mass index (BMI), weight stigma, infertility, and mental health. BMI...