AMA Journal of Ethics

What Should US Policymakers Learn From International Drug Pricing Transparency Strategies?

This article analyzes differences in prescription drug pricing transparency practices among 3 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member nations: the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. Specifically, this article compares these countries’ policies on list and net price disclosures and…

What Should “Shopping” Look Like in Actual Practice?

In health care, lack of transparency about the cost of health care services to patients during clinical encounters has contributed to increased costs and high out-of-pocket expenses. Federal policy has responded to the need for more transparency and spurred discussion…

Ethics Talk: How to Avoid Hyper Medicalization and Iatrogenic Child Abuse

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about medical child abuse, sites of pediatric neglect, and how clinicians can best carry out their responsibilities as mandatory reporters. The…

Ethics Talk: Hacking Structural Racism in Health Care

In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with organizers of MIT Hacking Racism in Healthcare about design thinking as a way to find solutions to combat structural racism and advance health equity.

How Does Law Support Compassionate Mental Health Practice?

Compassion has long been a bulwark of mental health law. Civil commitment, guardianship, mandated clinical intervention, diversion courts, involuntary medication, insanity defenses, and aid-in-sentencing evaluations are all elements of compassionate mental health practice. Parens patriae (the state as parent) and…

Justice in CRISPR/Cas9 Research and Clinical Applications

CRISPR/Cas9 is a rapidly developing gene editing technology that will soon have many clinical applications. As with many other new technologies, somatic gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9 raises concerns about equitable access to therapies by historically disenfranchised racial and ethnic minorities….

Beyond Immutable Barriers: Structural Competency and Reproductive Health

Reproductive health disparities particularly those experienced by racial and ethnic minority groups are considered a persistent public health issue in the United States. Frameworks that focus on social determinants of health seek to identify the forces producing these disparities, particularly…