Bioethics Today

The American Journal of Bioethics stands as the premier publication in the bioethics sector, featuring original articles that address both national and international ethical issues in health care, medicine, public health, and the life sciences. Each year, twelve issues are released, which include peer-reviewed scholarly articles, open peer commentaries, editorials, book reviews, and case studies focused on ethics in clinical care and research. Our contributors hail from diverse fields and academic backgrounds, offering informed and well-researched discussions that have been referenced by judges, politicians, journalists, educators, and countless others as a primary resource on numerous topics related to health sciences. The American Journal of Bioethics stays true to the progressive vision that established bioethics by fostering serious discussions about the societal impacts of biomedicine.

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Addressing Two Key Ethical Concerns in the UK to Ensure a Dignified Assisted Death

Jan 15, 2025 | bioethicstoday.org | Bela Fishbeyn

On 29 November 2024, a majority of the UK Parliament backed the Assisted Dying Bill in a vote described by some in the media as ‘historic’. With around 54.55% of members voting in favor, the bill will now move on to further stages of scrutiny, amendments, and further votes. If the bill receives Royal Assent, the UK will become the 16th country to decriminalize assisted dying.
Moral and Practical Considerations in the Debate on Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the UK

Jan 9, 2025 | bioethicstoday.org | Bela Fishbeyn

A controversial Bill, titled Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, was recently proposed in England. The primary aim of this Bill is to allow adults aged 18 and over who are terminally ill and have the mental capacity to request assistance from a doctor to end their lives.
Who deserves Ozempic?

Sep 26, 2024 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

There isn’t enough Ozempic for everyone who wants it. People with health conditions like type 2 diabetes and severe obesity should get it before people who hope to lose a few pounds. As the new ‘miracle drug’ for weight loss, Ozempic is one of the most popular new drugs in America. This has come mostly from the media, celebrities, and TikTok influencers praising it for its short-term effects, but not from experts. The FDA approved the top-selling GLP-1 agonist in 2017 to treat diabetes.
'Tell Them You Love Me' is Shamefully Ableist

Jul 28, 2024 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

In 2015, an exposé in The New York Times Magazine brought national attention to Anna Stubblefield’s sexual assault trial. Stubblefield, a white Rutgers University philosophy professor specializing in critical race and disability studies, raped a non-verbal Black man with cerebral palsy named Derrick Johnson, who is legally incapable of providing sexual consent. After a complicated legal process, Stubblefield pleaded guilty to rape in 2018.
“You need more friends”: Making Space for Latine Diversity in Bioethics

Jun 13, 2024 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

Author’s note on language: Many different terms are used to describe people from Latin America or with Latin American heritage. I prefer “Latine,” and I use this term throughout unless I am referring to someone else’s work or chosen term. The first time someone referred to me as her “Latina friend” (with the subtext that I was her only Latina friend), my immediate thought was, “You need more friends.” How could I possibly be her only Latine friend? Yet, underrepresentation is common in bioethics.
True Trans Bioethics Centers Trans Experience

Mar 17, 2024 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

I am a transgender person researching transgender data justice in healthcare. I actively look for presentations surrounding trans health in bioethics conferences. So far, the dominant bioethics literature about transgender people focuses on reacting to the anti-trans movement without centering trans experience. More specifically, it is oriented to fight the anti-trans legislative acts. Such focus fails to ask how a transgender person might argue or see these laws.
Patient Advocacy in Practice

Feb 1, 2024 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

AuthorChristina Sisti, DPS, MPH, MS Publish dateJanuary 31, 2024 I was in a meeting recently, and a colleague discussed his conversation with a researcher. The researcher voiced his concerns about the involvement of patient advocates during the grant review process.
Medicaid is Fundamental to Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Health Security

Jan 28, 2024 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

Author Mitchell Berger, MPH Publish date January 23, 2024 With the ending of the COVID-19 public health emergency and passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, provisions implemented in 2020 during the height of COVID-19 to keep eight to 24 million Americans continuously enrolled in Medicaid came to an end. With additional federal financial support, Medicaid by 2022 covered more than 85 million Americans. But with the emergency now official ended and states needing to...
Wartime Homefront Medical Ethics

Jan 21, 2024 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

AuthorShelly Kamin-Friedman, PhD, Maya Peled Raz, PhD, Nili Karako-Eyal, PhD Publish dateJanuary 22, 2024 In October 2023, the Hamas terrorist organization carried out a murderous attack on Israeli civilians and soldiers. Approximately one thousand and two hundred people were murdered.
Disability, Gratitude & Interdependence

Nov 24, 2023 | bioethicstoday.org | Alyssa Burgart

Publish dateNovember 21, 2023 It’s November and I am grateful. Everyone has some reason to be grateful, even if those reasons aren’t distributed fairly.