Ethical perspectives in health care by members of the Health Care Ethics Internship Program.
HCEI Interns and Ethics Center bioethics staff share perspectives around a variety of health care and bioethics related ethical dilemmas.
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Saving someone’s life could be as simple as pushing a button in the event of an opioid overdose, yet this is information not many know about and even fewer act on. Carrying naloxone is not just a public health initiative, but a moral responsibility all of us carry under the ethical framework of the common good.
Since 2015, there have been 20,000 children who have been sent to wilderness programs in Utah for mental health and behavioral issues. The Troubled Teen Industry and these types of programs are marketed as “rehabilitation” when they are often masking coercion, abuse, and neglect. When adolescent autonomy is neglected and parental consent creates a loophole of harm, is this really treatment or a systemic ethical failure?
Inadequate regulation of anthropogenic nanomaterials—man-made pollutants ranging from 1-100 nm—may reinforce health inequities due to fenceline communities’ heightened exposure.
Police are routinely dispatched to mental health crises, yet these encounters disproportionately result in harm for individuals of color, a pattern long highlighted by racial justice movements like Black Lives Matter. This predictable pattern exposes a deeper ethical tension: can a system grounded in enforcement defend a model that endangers those it is meant to protect?
Explainability techniques seek to remedy the “black box” problem of AI. This piece argues that they are ethically insufficient in a health care context, and that interpretable and rigorously validated models should be used instead.
