#AMAJournalofEthics

Aging Is Bad for You? At some point along life’s trajectory, growing becomes aging. Gerotherapeutics—biologically-based approaches to health that target processes of aging—seem poised to respond. This theme issue investiga...

The December 2025 Issue of the #AMAJournalofEthics – Aging Is Bad for You? – is live!

This theme issue investigates ethical valences of what gerotherapeutics suggest about our pattern of pathologizing and medicalizing aging: journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/aging-...

Electronic Health Record Evolution Patients’ charts once hung at the feet of their hospital beds, and their purpose was to serve as the record of care for a particular patient. Now, electronic health records (EHRs) have several functio...

The November 2025 Issue of the #AMAJournalofEthics – Electronic Health Record Evolution – is live!

This theme issue investigates which values should inform EHR stewardship and innovation decisions: journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/electr...

Existential Health Care Ethics The American Medical Association declares that physicians will address “natural and man-made assaults on the health and wellbeing of humankind,” and that “[h]umanity is our patient.” The World Medical...

The August 2025 Issue of the #AMAJournalofEthics – Existential Health Care Ethics – is live!

This theme issue considers what continued human existence requires of global and domestic health care: journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/existe...

Surgical Care of Incarcerated Patients The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation. Developing and maintaining clinically and ethically appropriate surgical care for incarcerees requires clinicians, health c...

The April 2025 Issue of the #AMAJournalofEthics – Surgical Care of Incarcerated Patients – is live!

Patients who are incarcerated lack timely access to safe, quality surgical care: journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/surgic...

Peace in Health Care Clinicians are carefully trained to incorporate and routinize what they do together every day, over and over again: health care professionalism has always been and is a practice. While so-called “medi...

The November 2024 Issue of the #AMAJournalofEthics – Peace in Health Care – is live!

This issue investigates what it means to establish and maintain health care as an enterprise known less for stress and more for healing: spr.ly/6013Spa3H