AI & Medicine
Neonatal bioethics, AI,
and genomics
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John D. Lantos is a pediatrician and bioethicist. For four decades he has worked at the intersection of clinical medicine and moral philosophy, writing about how families, doctors, and institutions decide what we owe each other when the stakes are highest. and is increasingly focused on artificial intelligence in medicine, its promises, its hazards, and the kinds of judgment it cannot replace. His essays appear in JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, the Hastings Center Report, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Aeon. He delivered the TEDx talk Writing Our Last Chapter.
A field of arguments
What he writes about, organized by argument rather than chronology.
- AI & MedicineAlgorithms, judgment, and the lost aura of the physician.17
- Neonatal & NICU EthicsDecisions at the edge of viability.100
- End-of-Life DecisionsWhen more medicine isn't more care.102
- Organ DonationTreating donors as philanthropists, not vendors.31
- Clinical Ethics ConsultationWhat good ethics looks like at the bedside.5
- Pediatric BioethicsThe four decades of the canon.760
From the desk
What I have been writing, lately.
A small library
A selection of books.
Do We Still Need Doctors?
John Lantos, a pediatrician, teacher, and bioethicist, analyzes doctors' roles and responsibilities within the ever-metastasizing enterprise that we will call the health system.
Neonatal Bioethics
An excellent addition to the growing body of literature in health care ethics . . . While health care professionals within neonatal medicine will find the book most useful, it has relevance for a much wider audience, including other health care professionals, medical and nursing students and ethicists.
The Lazarus Case
Compelling. Lantos's narrative style makes for pleasurable reading; once you start a given chapter it is difficult to put his book down. He is at his best when sharing his personal experiences in the clinical realm and insights from relevant nonmedical literature. I am confident it will generate important discussions within our group that will benefit each of us and the infants and families we care for.
Stage and microphone
Available for podcasts, lectures, and conferences on AI in medicine, neonatal ethics, and clinical decision-making at the edge of life.
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