Susan Gilbert

We can improve the lives of people living with dementia, beginning with using better narratives to talk about the condition.

Regardless of one’s position on the legalization of assisted dying, how these deaths are documented on death certificates raises important ethical questions about vital statistics and individual privacy.

It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.

In a recent episode of The Pitt, two ICE agents bring a patient into the ER who was apprehended in a raid. While the episode gets a lot right, it has some shortcomings. And those shortcomings largely coincide with the inadequacies of hospital policies.

New ACOG guidelines for diagnosing endometriosis are welcome news for patients and reproductive justice.

The failure of countries that depend on migrant farm workers to guarantee professional medical interpretation for them when they get sick violates basic ethical principles and fundamental human rights.

Hard cases make bad law. Does a flesh-eating worm really help us think about how to use genome editing in the wild?

The facts are not enough. In addition to using evidence, people who support the legal right to abortion must make the moral case for it.

Releasing this research ahead of peer review raises ethical concerns; it risks making human embryo gene editing appear safer and more inevitable than the evidence supports.

2026 LRAC Guest Juror Exhibition on display now until Sept. 15 in Fergus Falls, featuring work by 21 regional artists