{"title":"From Destinations to Paths: Interpretive Dialogue as the Missing Process in RTLS Ethics.","authors":"Jared Howes, Yvonne Denier, Chris Gastmans","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2710266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2710266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"156-159"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical Obligations to Evidence-Based, Patient-Centered Care and Situational Constraints.","authors":"Ginika Oguagha, Emma Tumilty","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2709538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2709538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"135-137"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shorter Seems Better, But Ethical Questions Remain.","authors":"Mark Christopher Navin, Nicholas E Gilpin","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2709570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2709570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"104-106"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bryanna Moore, Matthew S McCoy, Ryan H Nelson, Ronit Stahl, Lauren A Taylor, Peter A Ubel, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby
{"title":"What Can We Ask of Hospitals? Conceptual Foundations for an Ethics of Healthcare Organizations.","authors":"Bryanna Moore, Matthew S McCoy, Ryan H Nelson, Ronit Stahl, Lauren A Taylor, Peter A Ubel, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2632011","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2632011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From aggressive billing practices to neglectful or discriminatory care, news stories about the misconduct of healthcare organizations abound. Yet there has been limited ethical scrutiny of hospitals and other healthcare organizations in the bioethics literature. In this paper, we explore what philosophy and organizational theory can offer in terms of concepts for articulating the obligations of healthcare organizations, specifically hospitals. We highlight how the concepts of institutional agency and responsibility, administrative harms and burdens, and communicative blame provide theoretical resources that can help bioethics get closer to a more robust organizational ethics. We advance two claims: first, these concepts help us make sense of how hospitals or healthcare organizations-not just individuals and the broader systems they operate within-can be morally responsible or blameworthy. Second, critical reflection on these concepts as they apply to several historical examples suggest some <i>prima facie</i> obligations of organizations that provide patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"20-34"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147318871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jason Adam Wasserman, Mark Christopher Navin, Abram L Brummett
{"title":"Bioethics Makes Strange Bedfellows: A Discussion with Our Colleagues About Institutional Conscience and Neurologically Devastated Patients.","authors":"Jason Adam Wasserman, Mark Christopher Navin, Abram L Brummett","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2710259","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2710259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"W4-W9"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148708330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI Use in Dementia Care Requires Engagement with Patient and Caregiver Perspectives.","authors":"Juliana Friend, Valerie Black, Winston Chiong","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2715910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2715910","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"4-8"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hadley Stevens Smith, Kelsey N Berry, Anita K Wagner
{"title":"From Conceptual Foundations to Practice: Advancing Organizational Ethics of Health Care Payers.","authors":"Hadley Stevens Smith, Kelsey N Berry, Anita K Wagner","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2709555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2709555","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"52-55"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Calvin W L Ho, Mostafa Talebi Koohestani, Karel Caals
{"title":"Antibiotic (Mis)Use and the Epistemology of Ignorance.","authors":"Calvin W L Ho, Mostafa Talebi Koohestani, Karel Caals","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2709560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2709560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"114-116"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Real Question About Shorter Antibiotic Courses.","authors":"Angela Scott, Mitchell Jenkins","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2709556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2709556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"111-113"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mirko Ancillotti, Dan I Andersson, Linus Sandegren
{"title":"When Does Evidence Create a Moral Obligation to Depart from Antibiotic Guidelines?","authors":"Mirko Ancillotti, Dan I Andersson, Linus Sandegren","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2026.2709544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2709544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"26 9","pages":"109-111"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148833716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}