{"title":"When Is It Acceptable to Terminate Resuscitation in Prehospital Settings?","authors":"Christopher Libby, Scott H Pasichow","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.484","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given advances in resuscitation science that bring advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) to prehospital settings, emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics must make decisions about whether and when to terminate resuscitation and to transport a patient for whom ACLS is unsuccessful. Protocols for both vary across the United States. This article reviews ethical and scientific features of EMTs' and paramedics' decisions to initiate, continue, or terminate resuscitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 7","pages":"E484-490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Which Technologies Should Be Used to Improve Prehospital Emergency Services?","authors":"Sophia Görgens","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chief among the barriers to maintaining emergency medical services in rural areas are personnel shortages, long travel times, and austere settings in which clinicians must often provide care. These problems stem from a variety of sources, and some of those stemming from funding shortfalls might be remediable through technological innovation. This article examines how new technologies have recently been implemented and suggests how technology might be further integrated into prehospital emergency care.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 7","pages":"E510-517"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Makes Rural EMS in the US a Health Equity Concern?","authors":"Molly Nguyen, Tanya Shenoy","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.481","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 7","pages":"E481-483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodied Experiences of Implants.","authors":"Holland Houdek","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.442","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the importance of storytelling for human well-being. Special attention is given to the roles storytelling has played in human evolution, how sharing stories informs embodied experiences, and the role of storytelling within medicine to promote health.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E442-449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muscle Memory as Embodied Record Keeping.","authors":"Jessica Delli Carpini","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.419","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the importance of storytelling for human well-being. Special attention is given to the roles storytelling has played in human evolution, how sharing stories informs embodied experiences, and the role of storytelling within medicine to promote health.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E419-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Painting Through Macular Degeneration.","authors":"Michael Zitser","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the importance of storytelling for human well-being. Special attention is given to the roles storytelling has played in human evolution, how sharing stories informs embodied experiences, and the role of storytelling within medicine to promote health.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E438-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watercolor With Tremor.","authors":"Wendy McMahon","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the importance of storytelling for human well-being. Special attention is given to the roles storytelling has played in human evolution, how sharing stories informs embodied experiences, and the role of storytelling within medicine to promote health.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E440-441"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons in Embodiment From the World of Physical Theatre.","authors":"Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.397","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article considers how the concept of embodiment is used in artistic practices to promote mind-body integration, kinesthetic empathy, and trust, each of which can be drawn upon to strengthen patient-clinician relationships. This article also offers examples from the world of physical theatre to help clinicians and patients notice, communicate, and feel more comfortable about their embodied experiences during clinical encounters.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E397-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychogeography as Embodied Connection to Place.","authors":"Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk, John C Green","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article introduces psychogeography as a research method that relies on embodied practices of drifting (dérive) through a city, which are followed by subsequent creative cartography. Mapping and documentation that follow dérive promote fuller understanding of persons' patterns of embodying sensory data from urban environments. This article then applies key ideas from psychogeography to urban planning and public health.As soon as I step outside, I am met with an onslaught of sensory data. The sunlight through the leaves, the smell of recently bloomed roses, the constant buzz and chirp-chirp-chirp of springtime creatures, a child's garden strategically set to appeal to the fairies. A neighborhood cat follows me a few paces down the sidewalk hoping for a scritch behind the ears-I happily oblige. Litter and sound increase as I near a busier road. Blue Moon bottles and Big Gulp cups; a billboard of Jennifer Anniston overlooks the intersection like a commercial Goddess of late 90s nostalgia. I scribble notes as I walk, sweat dripping from the backs of my knees, chest still tight with the memory of winter.Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk, 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E402-408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Brief History of Healthier Comic Making.","authors":"Teddie Bernard","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.414","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the importance of storytelling for human well-being. Special attention is given to the roles storytelling has played in human evolution, how sharing stories informs embodied experiences, and the role of storytelling within medicine to promote health.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E414-418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}