{"title":"Why Should Extinction Medicine Be a Specialty?","authors":"Devin M Kellis","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.571","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This commentary on a case builds on recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine. If based on precise application of scientific findings about species extinction, disaster prevention and management, and health policy, such a specialty could help reduce humanity's extinction risk. Finally, the commentary suggests extinction medicine competencies, who might become an extinction medicine clinician, and how the specialty might be launched.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 8","pages":"E571-581"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMA journal of ethics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.571","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This commentary on a case builds on recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine. If based on precise application of scientific findings about species extinction, disaster prevention and management, and health policy, such a specialty could help reduce humanity's extinction risk. Finally, the commentary suggests extinction medicine competencies, who might become an extinction medicine clinician, and how the specialty might be launched.
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The AMA Journal of Ethics exists to help medical students, physicians and all health care professionals navigate ethical decisions in service to patients and society. The journal publishes cases and expert commentary, medical education articles, policy discussions, peer-reviewed articles for journal-based and audio CME, visuals, and more. Since its inception as an editorially-independent journal, we promote ethics inquiry as a public good.