{"title":"Embodiment in Art Practice.","authors":"Michaela Chan","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 6","pages":"E395-396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200344","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":"Perch and Peel in Illustrated Poems of Embodiment.","authors":"Michaela Chan","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.450","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":"E450-456"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200349","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":"Self-Portraiture, Embodiment, and Adaptive Creation.","authors":"Julia O'Brien","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.426","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":"E426-437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200352","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":"When Poor Practice and Poor Communication Make Grief Worse.","authors":"Mónica Lalanda","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.457","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":"E457-477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200354","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":"Narrative, Embodiment, and Health.","authors":"Jake Young","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.409","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":"E409-413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200347","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":"Repair and Transformation.","authors":"Delaina Doshi, Neha Sheng","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.424","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":"E424-425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200351","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":"How Should We Stop Private Equity Firms From Exploiting Public Health Insurance?","authors":"Yashaswini Singh","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.346","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Private equity (PE) investments in health care have grown to over $750 billion in the past decade and include every segment of the US health sector. Although PE investments can provide capital and improve efficiency of health service delivery, PE's emphasis on short-term profitability could raise costs, diminish quality of care, and negatively influence clinician autonomy and career satisfaction. This article first canvasses what is currently known about how PE investments in physician practices influence clinician practice patterns and then proposes regulatory and legislative strategies for restricting harms of PE ownership of clinician practices and for fostering affordable and high-value health services.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 5","pages":"E346-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143989687","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":"When and How Should Patients Be Informed About Clinicians' or Organizations' Sale of a Clinical Practice to a Private Equity Buyer?","authors":"Cheryl Erwin, Sheryl Tatar Dacso","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.318","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Private equity (PE) firms' acquisition and management of health service delivery entities, such as specialty physicians' practices, have been associated with increased cost and diminished quality of care. This commentary on a case argues that clinician-sellers have obligations to disclose to their patients known and foreseeable changes-especially those affecting services' cost or quality or health outcomes-to which PE ownership could contribute.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 5","pages":"E318-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988506","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":"Wavering on Branches of a Decision Tree.","authors":"Lio Barnhardt","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One driver of the corporatization of medicine has been private equity (PE) firms' acquisition of physician practices. This article describes when PE firms' investments in or ownership of physicians' practices undermine health service delivery operations and patients' outcomes to the point of violating primum non nocere, a key ethical requirement for physicians to prioritize harm avoidance in practice. This article then suggests how to balance the interests of health care as a commercial enterprise with health care as a critical human right.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 5","pages":"E382-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014335","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":"Private Equity Strategies in Nonprofit Health Care.","authors":"Zachary J Gallin, Emily L Xu","doi":"10.1001/amajethics.2025.354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.354","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Private equity firms exacerbate health inequity by driving hospital closures in historically underserved communities. Now nonprofit health systems seem to be adopting private equity practices to do the same. Drawing on a case study of one nonprofit hospital system that has adopted private equity business practices to acquire and close community hospitals, this article argues that nonprofit hospitals' adoption of private equity acquisition and closure practices sacrifices their missions, prioritizes profit, and works to the detriment of local communities. This article construes this set of practices as a breach of organizational ethics that must be addressed via policy changes, specifically by placing guardrails on closures and promoting responsible health care investments.</p>","PeriodicalId":38034,"journal":{"name":"AMA journal of ethics","volume":"27 5","pages":"E354-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052141","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}