Category Public Health

Adolescent Consent: Culturally Relative or Universal?

Julien Brisson supports removing age-based restrictions on adolescent healthcare consent, advocating for decisions to be made on the adolescent’s capacity to understand the treatment.

Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Medical Fascism, & the Role of Bioethics

Florence Ashley connects conservative attacks against gender-affirming care to wider fascist movements determined to eliminate marginalized groups

Vaccines Treating Cancer: Would Anti-Vaxxers Change their Minds?

Chris Kaposy wonders about the impact of mRNA vaccines that treat cancer on the anti-vaccine movement.

AI’s Quiet (R)evolution in Healthcare

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon discusses the integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare and emphasizes the need for sustained ethical engagement to address AI’s deep-seated impacts.

Uncovering the Ethical Dimensions of Colonial Medicine

Alan Lim explores the ethical implications of colonial medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to shape a more conscientious and ethical future in medical education and practice.