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 ...

Policy experts complain that America has been slow to address its long-term economic problems – and unrealistic when such issues are actually discussed. But there has been even greater evasion and ...

Author discusses the ethics of disclosing the cost of treatments to patients before prescribing them and weighing financial risk vs medical care. The practice of medicine requires high moral standards ...

“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 ...

As public trust declines and technology transforms decision-making, CFOs must lead with ethics, not just compliance. Plato once said, "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly." In ...

Oriel Zagazeta is a biology major with a chemistry minor and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. The use of stem cells in health care ...

Katelyn John is majoring in neuroscience and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Any form of physician-assisted suicide, now known as ...

Individuals who seek a deeper insight into today’s most pressing ethical issues are encouraged to participate in the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program’s “Bioethics: Navigating the Challenges of Today's ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integral to healthcare, the urgency to integrate ethical governance cannot be overstated. Healthcare and health technology companies must embrace ...