This commentary examines the appropriateness of a clinician’s deceiving a patient who will not discuss lifesaving therapy through the lens of solidarity, a key professional ethical value. Clinicians’ awareness of social determinants of many patients’ increased vulnerability to HIV infection…
HIV/AIDS exceptionalism promoted compassion, garnered funding, built institutions, and shaped regulatory and research agendas under emergency conditions. Globally, however, HIV/AIDS exceptionalism has further fragmented fragile health service delivery systems in vulnerable, marginalized communities and created perverse incentives to influence seropositive…
This article considers merits and drawbacks of “undetectable = untransmissible” (U = U) messaging in the global HIV response. First, viral suppression might be achieved with effective treatment, but not everyone living with HIV has access to such intervention and…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about the rise of states of “chronic emergency,” how health care workers can be protected when working conflict zones, and how…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on how decisions about demographic data collection have the power to illuminate or obscure health inequity and the work that the…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on dietary supplement safety and the limited legal means of reining in social media influencers’ advertisements about dietary supplements. Featured guests…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on how “abolition medicine” can motivate critical responses to medicine’s expressions of hyper-punitive, deeply racialized exercises of state authority. Featured guests…
The Aesthetics of Health (AOH) undergraduate visual art studies course at the University of Texas at Austin aimed to enhance art students’ awareness of cancer’s impact not only medically but also socially, emotionally, financially, and spiritually and to examine how…
Arts-based activities’ roles in medical education is to challenge students to cultivate clinical skills using ART (aesthetics, reflection, time). ART activities offer opportunities for students to cultivate creative dimensions of their clinical skills and to reflect on their responses to…
Inspired by research indicating that exposure to humanities correlates with reduced burnout, the Nebraska Medical Orchestra was founded in 2018 as a collaboration between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Music….
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