Laura Specker Sullivan,Ava Randel,Hannah Scotch,Lauren Taylor
{"title":"Organizational Trustworthiness: A Commitment Account","authors":"Laura Specker Sullivan,Ava Randel,Hannah Scotch,Lauren Taylor","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2741310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2741310","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a commitment account of organizational trustworthiness and describes its application to healthcare organizations. On this account, a trustworthy organization makes commitments it is competent to keep and it has a track record of keeping them. We argue that, unlike other conceptions of trustworthiness, the commitment account best fits the impersonal, diffuse nature of healthcare organizations.","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152764","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":"Federation Opacity Makes Medical Machine Learning’s Failures Harder to Detect and Correct","authors":"Joshua Hatherley,Anders Søgaard,Angela Ballantyne,Ruben Pauwels","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2741283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2741283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152761","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}
Anessa M. Foxwell,Christine Grady,Connie M. Ulrich,David Wendler
{"title":"Provision of Appropriate Care as a Source of Clinician Distress","authors":"Anessa M. Foxwell,Christine Grady,Connie M. Ulrich,David Wendler","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2741294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2741294","url":null,"abstract":"Clinicians are dedicated to helping others, healing the sick, and protecting the healthy from becoming sick. Obviously, clinicians would prefer to help others without causing them any distress. But, appropriate care includes procedures and interventions that can cause pain, distress, and sometimes even suffering. Clinicians must therefore accept that they frequently have to cause their patients to experience pain and distress. Because patients’ distress tends to be short-lived, the resulting distress on the treating clinicians is typically minimal. However, when provision of appropriate care requires clinicians to cause their patients to suffer, the clinicians themselves can experience significant distress. This distress can reduce team cohesion, increase clinician burnout, and undermine clinicians’ confidence in the care they provide. In this essay, we describe this source of clinician distress, assess its implications for clinical practice, and begin to consider ways to address it.","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"232 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152762","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":"Ambient Digital Scribes as Educational Mirrors: Closing the Feedback Gap in Physician Communication","authors":"Joshua Jonghyeon Park,Ashley Serin Park","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2741285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2741285","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare systems are rapidly adopting ambient digital scribe (ADS) technologies to reduce documentation burden and improve efficiency in clinical care. Although these systems are typically framed as technical tools that listen to patient dialogue, they also capture physician speech, creating an underexplored opportunity for ethical and pedagogical innovation. At present, everyday patient-physician interactions largely occur without systematic reflection, producing a persistent ‘feedback gap’ in which deleterious communication often goes unnoticed. This paper argues for a reframing of ADS as ‘educational mirrors’, using AI-generated annotations and transcripts to provide physicians with formative feedback on communicative patterns and language that shape patient experience. We theorize the benefits of this reframing on a stakeholder-specific basis, analyze central ethical concerns, and propose governance safeguards and careful implementation to minimize potential harms. With appropriate consent, validation, and equity-centered design, reframing ADS technologies could help close the feedback gap and promote more ethical clinical care.","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152763","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":"Non-Anthropocentric Research Ethics? A Reply to the Commentaries","authors":"Sabine Salloch","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2741314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2741314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152769","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":"The Reasonable Researcher, Not the Reasonable Person: Relocating the Burden of Disclosure","authors":"Y. Tony Yang","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2717143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2717143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993898","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":"Ageism, Ableism, and Agency","authors":"Vanessa Carbonell","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2717105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2717105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993899","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":"Employment-Related Risk Is Reasonable to Disclose—Even to the Unemployed","authors":"Michelle Bach","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2717113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2717113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993918","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}
Rachel J. Topazian,Michael J. DiStefano,Gianna Morales,Matthew DeCamp
{"title":"Factors for Assessing Employment-Based Risks of Participation in Psychedelic Research","authors":"Rachel J. Topazian,Michael J. DiStefano,Gianna Morales,Matthew DeCamp","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2717100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2717100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993892","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":"From Absence to Corrective Trust: Repairing Ageist-Ableist Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare","authors":"Ju Zhang","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2717150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2717150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501008,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"157 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993894","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}