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Writing on medicine and ethics.
2026
- AI and Chariots of FireSep
- When Comfort Hastens Death: Rethinking the Line Between Palliative Care and Euthanasia for Dying ChildrenMay
- After the Aura: What Doctors Are Actually ForMay
- Why the Dutch Keep Pediatric Euthanasia Illegal · Eduard VerhagenMay
- When the Facts Aren't Really Facts: Rethinking Decisions at the Edge of Newborn LifeMay
- Humans for technique, chatbots for understandingAprFrom the blog
- The Lost Aura of the Doctor in the Age of AIMarFrom the blog
- The Tiniest Patients: Rethinking How We DecideMarFrom the blog
- The Lost Aura of the Physician in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.JAMA
- When facts are not fixed: rethinking shared decision making at the margins of neonatal viability.BMC medical ethics
2025
- Emilia Perez: New Life or New Gender?JanFrom the blog
- Associations of Physician Perspectives, Personal Choices, and Counseling for Severe Congenital Heart Defects. · Woo JL, et al.Prenatal diagnosis
- Variation in the extent to which patient information leaflets describe potential benefits and harms of trial interventions: a commentary. · Howick J, et al.Trials
- Pediatric Gender Medicine—Reply · Moti Gorin, Jilles SmidsJAMA
- The Philosophical Fiction of Substituted Judgment.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
- Toward Evidence-Based and Ethical Pediatric Gender Medicine · Moti Gorin, Jilles SmidsJAMA
2024
- Can Bioethics be Funny?DecFrom the blog
- IVF, Culture Wars, and "Joy"DecFrom the blog
- AI, Genomics, and the 21st century physicianNovFrom the blog
- Research in Gender Medicine SucksOctFrom the blog
- Survival After Court-Ordered Treatment WithdrawalOctFrom the blog
- Imane Khalif and Eero MäntyrantaSepFrom the blog
- Human sacrifice and the courage to failJulFrom the blog
- Carl Elliott and William FaulknerJulFrom the blog
- Whistleblowing: A Special Sort of HellJunFrom the blog
- Is the West the Best?JunFrom the blog
- Is Comstock Coming for your Condoms?AprFrom the blog
- Parents prayers in the PICUFebFrom the blog
- Who needs pediatric palliative care?FebFrom the blog
- Shortcomings of Citizen ScienceJanFrom the blog
- Gaza and the complexity and context of suffering. · Zivot JB, et al.Lancet (London, England)
- The slow, necessary growth of pediatric palliative care.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care
- Neonatal bioethics, AI, and genomicsEarly Human Development
- Abortion as a human right’Medicine and law
- How to move forward in shared decision-making in pediatric palliative care · Chantal Y. Joren, et al.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care
- How Will Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices, And What Impact Will It Have? · Marc A. RodwinForefront Group
- The Dutch model for regulating paediatric euthanasia · Eduard VerhagenArchives of Disease in Childhood
2023
- Texas Abortion DecisionDecFrom the blog
- Tough Truths and Dissembling Discussions about DyingNovFrom the blog
- Trashing genomicsOctFrom the blog
- Suppressing free speech as a form of free speech?OctFrom the blog
- Another Autumn, Another COVID Jab. Or not?SepFrom the blog
- I dare you: Read these two books together.SepFrom the blog
- Dying with dignityAugFrom the blog
- Gender-affirming treatment: life-saver or child-abuseAugFrom the blog
- How do you wanna die?JulFrom the blog
- Criticizing brain death pisses people offJulFrom the blog
- Who should debate RFK Jr?JunFrom the blog
- Controversial Bodies in the Mütter MuseumJunFrom the blog
- The Death of a Good DoctorJunFrom the blog
- When families disagree with expertsJunFrom the blog
- Drama about Duchenne at the FDAJunFrom the blog
- This is not a three-parent childMayFrom the blog
- Sister Senators and South Carolina SupremesMayFrom the blog
- Dobbs and Democracy in "Realville"AprFrom the blog
- Who's Afraid of Ectogenesis?AprFrom the blog
- Is Pregnancy A Disease?AprFrom the blog
- Outsourcing empathyMarFrom the blog
- Will AI replace doctors?MarFrom the blog
- Two old doctor books that won't dieMarFrom the blog
- The false-negative phenotypeMarFrom the blog
- Who (or what) is a bioethicist?FebFrom the blog
- Trans politics brings down PM SturgeonFebFrom the blog
- Trying to Defend the Living WorldFebFrom the blog
- High cost and low expectationsJanFrom the blog
- Hunger GamesJanFrom the blog
- Did COVID kill Jacinda Ardern?JanFrom the blog
- Paul Offit vs. NEJM on COVID BoostersJanFrom the blog
- Understanding the Clinical Utility of Genome Sequencing in Critically Ill Newborns · Luca Brunelli, Robin Z. HayeemsThe Journal of Pediatrics
- Challenges in accelerated approvals for gene therapies · Rafael EscandonMolecular Therapy
- Pediatric palliative care across continents: Communication and shared-decision-making · Chantal Y. Joren, et al.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care
- Reply to Letter about whole genome sequencing in newborns · Annie Janvier, Keith J. BarringtonHuman Genetics
- The Future of Newborn Genomic Testing.Children (Basel, Switzerland)
- The Dilemmas of Artificial Wombs: Conventional Ethics and Science Fiction. · Janvier AThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB
- The FDA’s Dueling Narratives: Protector Versus Obstacle · Marc A. RodwinForefront Group
- The Future of Newborn Genomic ScreeningPreprints.org
2022
- A humane society after Dobbs?DecFrom the blog
- Loving him meant letting him dieDecFrom the blog
- Caution about COVID vaccines for kidsDecFrom the blog
- Nights of Plague and Lessons of HistoryDecFrom the blog
- UK Appeals Court Supports AbleismNovFrom the blog
- Florida’s Anti-Vax PolicyNovFrom the blog
- The SARS-CoV-2 Lab-Leak Theory and the Dog That Did Not BarkNovFrom the blog
- Converging Crises for KidsOctFrom the blog
- COVID, Colonoscopies, and CertaintyOctFrom the blog
- Protecting children from ignoranceSepFrom the blog
- End of Life Care for Children in GroningenSepFrom the blog
- Teach us to outgrow guidelinesSepFrom the blog
- When to let babies dieAugFrom the blog
- Bombing bookstores and killing writersAugFrom the blog
- Money, miracles, and mortality in SMAAugFrom the blog
- Can race-based rationing be fair?AugFrom the blog
- What matters with KansasAugFrom the blog
- Three really good bioethics booksJulFrom the blog
- So? Gonna immunize your kids?JulFrom the blog
- Voting for Trump Worse Than SmokingJulFrom the blog
- Conscience claims after Roe v. WadeJulFrom the blog
- Brain death and xenotransplantation researchJulFrom the blog
- Two key lessons from UvaldeJulFrom the blog
- The reality of compulsory pregnancyJulFrom the blog