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Artificial Intelligence and Black-Box Medical Decisions: Accuracy versus Explainability by LONDON, ALEX JOHN

“…Although decision‐making algorithms are not new to medicine, the availability of vast stores of medical data, gains in computing power, and breakthroughs in…”
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Responding to Covid‐19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically by Gostin, Lawrence O., Friedman, Eric A., Wetter, Sarah A.

“…Few novel or emerging infectious diseases have posed such vital ethical challenges so quickly and dramatically as the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2. The World…”
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Covid‐19: Ethical Challenges for Nurses by Morley, Georgina, Grady, Christine, McCarthy, Joan, Ulrich, Connie M.

“…The Covid‐19 pandemic has highlighted many of the difficult ethical issues that health care professionals confront in caring for patients and families. The…”
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An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics by Faden, Ruth R., Kass, Nancy E., Goodman, Steven N., Pronovost, Peter, Tunis, Sean, Beauchamp, Tom L.

“…Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system…”
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Trust, Risk, and Race in American Medicine by Sullivan, Laura Specker

“…There is ample evidence that patient mistrust toward the American medical system is to some extent associated with communal and individual experiences of…”
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Sequencing Newborns: A Call for Nuanced Use of Genomic Technologies by Johnston, Josephine, Lantos, John D., Goldenberg, Aaron, Chen, Flavia, Parens, Erik, Koenig, Barbara A.

“…Many scientists and doctors hope that affordable genome sequencing will lead to more personalized medical care and improve public health in ways that will…”
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Older Adults and Covid‐19: The Most Vulnerable, the Hardest Hit by Powell, Tia, Bellin, Eran, Ehrlich, Amy R.

“…Older adults in the United States have been the age group hardest hit by the Covid pandemic. They have suffered a disproportionate number of deaths; Covid…”
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Vaccine Rationing and the Urgency of Social Justice in the Covid‐19 Response by Schmidt, Harald

“…The Covid‐19 pandemic needs to be considered from two perspectives simultaneously. First, there are questions about which policies are most effective and fair…”
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From "Personalized" to "Precision" Medicine: The Ethical and Social Implications of Rhetorical Reform in Genomic Medicine by Juengst, Eric, McGowan, Michelle L., Fishman, Jennifer R., Settersten Jr, Richard A.

“…Since the late 1980s, the human genetics and genomics research community has been promising to usher in a “new paradigm for health care”—one that uses…”
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Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public Health by Martinez‐Martin, Nicole, Wieten, Sarah, Magnus, David, Cho, Mildred K.

“…Digital contact tracing, in combination with widespread testing, has been a focal point for many plans to “reopen” economies while containing the spread of…”
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The Research-Treatment Distinction: A Problematic Approach for Determining Which Activities Should Have Ethical Oversight by Kass, Nancy E., Faden, Ruth R., Goodman, Steven N., Pronovost, Peter, Tunis, Sean, Beauchamp, Tom L.

“…The rise of quality improvement research and comparative effectiveness research in health care settings constitutes progress toward the goal of what the…”
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Social Media, E-Health, and Medical Ethics by TERRASSE, MÉLANIE, GORIN, MOTI, SISTI, DOMINIC

“…Given the profound influence of social media and emerging evidence of its effects on human behavior and health, bioethicists have an important role to play in…”
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Is Trust Enough? Anti‐Black Racism and the Perception of Black Vaccine “Hesitancy” by Wilson, Yolonda

“…In this article, I offer a preliminary exploration of the heavy lifting that the word “trust” is doing in questions about Black distrust of medicine and what,…”
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What Is the Aim of PEDIATRIC “Gender‐Affirming” Care? by Gorin, Moti

“…The original “Dutch Protocol”—the treatment model comprised of puberty blockers, cross‐sex hormones, and surgery—was intended to improve the mental and…”
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Getting to the Truth: Ethics, Trust, and Triage in the United States versus Europe during the Covid‐19 Pandemic by Orfali, Kristina

“…Ethical issues around triage have been at the forefront of debates during the Covid‐19 pandemic. This essay compares both discussion and guidelines around…”
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Carbon Emissions from Overuse of U.S. Health Care: Medical and Ethical Problems by Thiel, Cassandra, Richie, Cristina

“…The United States health care industry is the second largest in the world, expending an estimated 479 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon dioxide per year,…”
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Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic by Callahan, Daniel

“…Obesity may be the most difficult and elusive public health problem this country has ever encountered. Unlike the classical infectious diseases and plagues…”
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Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience by Brummett, Abram L., Hafen, Tanner, Navin, Mark C.

“…“Conscientious provision” refers to situations in which clinicians wish to provide legal and professionally accepted treatments prohibited within their…”
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Reconceptualizing Autonomy: A Relational Turn in Bioethics by Jennings, Bruce

“…History's judgment on the success of bioethics will not depend solely on the conceptual creativity and innovation in the field at the level of ethical and…”
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Strategic Ethics: Physician Associations and Their Roles in Pursuing Racial Equity by Brophy, Sorcha A, Shah, Roma

“…Since 2020, physician associations have become more vocal about confronting racism, initiating a wide range of advocacy efforts, making programming changes,…”
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