This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

The Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University supports scholarship and community engagement activities that bridge secular and religious discourse. With areas of focus ...

On Jan. 9, 2019, the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) approved an updated version of its Code of Ethics on Interactions with U.S. Health Care Professionals. The updated code will be ...

How should we define "death"? Who should decide when to withdraw life-sustaining treatment? How should we allocate donated organs? At Saint Louis University’s Department of Health Care Ethics, these ...

Christian Jimenez ’22 is a junior majoring in biochemistry and a 2020-21 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Access to healthcare is not the same ...

Isa Montes is a double major in Ethnic Studies and Political Science, and is a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her ...

Corporate misbehavior in the health-care sector is widespread: irresponsible opiate marketing, misrepresentation of research data, price gouging, and on and on. Some see it as capitalism run amok. In ...

Over my four decades as a physician, I have learned that the ethics of care can completely transform a health system. It means recognizing that every act of care—whether directed toward a patient, a ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform health care. It can enable health care professionals to analyze health data quickly and precisely, and lead to better detection, treatment, 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 ...

Whether by insurance or preference, Catholic health care’s presence in the United States is hard to ignore. In a recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the authors noted that 16 percent of ...