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11/03/2026

Dehumanizing Problems Recognized by Front Line Healthcare Workers and Proposed Low-Cost Solutions to Improve Care - Martha Abshire Saylor, Mary Catherine Beach, Scott M. Wright | Journal of Patient Experience, 2026

The objective was to summarize our experiences with the Impact Grants program, describe the dehumanizing problems, and proposed humanizing solutions identified ...

11/03/2026

Seminar, Monday, Nov. 9, Noon EST

Emily Haroz, PhD, MHS, MA, "From Community to Code: Integrating community voices and perspectives in artificial intelligence research related to mental health"

Open to all, attend in person, lunch provided. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health W1030. Info: https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-seminar-10952140

Berman Institute Bioethics Seminar Series

To do AI well in mental health, we need real people in real settings. The evidence we have so far is largely made without either. Consumer chatbots are tested against question sets and scenarios written in advance and scored against an answer key. Many AI tools bypass FDA regulation by claiming they...

11/03/2026

in the Academic Lit - This Week - Beyond Disagreement, Beyond Good & Bad, Policymakers' Engagement with Neuroscience, Trouble with 'Cure', Pragmatic Trials & People Living with Dementia, Moral Distress, Implicit Bias in Surgical Decision-Making, + More

From best interests to justified discretion: a process-based framework for emergency end-of-life decision-making, BMC Medical Ethics Authors: Chao-Hsin Wu, Chien-Yi Wu Emergency end-of-life decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity may be required when prognosis, preferences, and...

11/02/2026

Beyond Good and Bad: Rethinking Solidarity and Coercion in Public Health | Tess Johnson, Safura Abdool Karim, Diego Silva | AJOB Target Article

We often use certain terms as if, in using them, they contain a decided moral judgment of an action. Especially in public health ethics, this is not always the case, as shown most starkly by recent...

11/02/2026

Women travel thousands of miles for a reproductive moonshot. Scientists say they’ve been misled. A fertility industry is marketing ‘three-parent IVF’ despite scant evidence.

“You’re paying for the privilege of being a guinea pig,” said Jeff Kahn. “Where else in medicine would people sign up for that?”

https://www.statnews.com/2026/11/02/three-parent-ivf-fertility-tourism-investigation-mrt-therapy/ via STAT News

Pioneering IVF technique to reduce the risk of children inheriting mitochondrial diseases is being marketed as a fertility procedure for older women, despite little evidence it works.

11/02/2026

Anticipating and addressing ethical and regulatory challenges in embedded pragmatic trials involving people living with dementia | Ch. 5 in Real-World Research to Improve Dementia Care. | Anjali Gupta, Stephanie Morain, Emily Largent

11/02/2026

Beyond Disagreement: Performativity and the Production of Clinical Judgment - Kadija Ferryman | AJOB Open Peer Commentary

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 11, 2026)

10/30/2026

Global and Policy Program Weekly Roundup - Bug By-Product in Your Candy Corn, ICE Enforcement, AI, Grueling Journeys, Fresh Food Gap, Rare Inspections, Vertical Farms, Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax, + More

The Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International studies, addresses critical global issues of under- and over-nutrition and diet-related diseases, poverty, inequity ...

10/30/2026

State and Local Policymakers' Engagement with Neuroscience to Improve Health Policy in the United States - Adam Seth Levine, Debra JH Mathews and J Lomax Boyd | eNeuro

Neuroscience is useful for making progress on public health challenges such as mental health, aging, violence, and addiction. State and local policymakers have substantial authority over these issues but do not always have access to the research and counsel they want. To inform initiatives that coul...

10/29/2026

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Antidepressants, Device-Dependent Identity, Interpretability, Diagnostic Accuracy, Costs, Gene Therapy Death, Xenocortical Mice, Cybernetic Super Soldier Dogs, Mysterious Flickering Brain Signals, Consciousness, + More

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