Since publication of the "Ashley Case" in 2006, few rigorous clinical or research reports have elucidated the benefits, risks, outcomes, and experiences of children with severe neurodevelopmental disorders treated with Growth Attenuation Therapy (GAT). GAT remains available, however, with at least one institution publicly discussing its ongoing program. This paper describes ethics consultations provided

Caregiving for persons living with dementia has long been conceived as a series of tasks that sustain the body. Tasks such as these describe the work of caregiving for a person living with dementia, but they do not adequately define the practice of caregiving. The central premise of this essay is that caregiving is body care, but it is also mind care. In this article, we describe how mind care occurs

Complex hospital disposition is categorized by the difficulty or impossibility, despite efforts, to secure a medically safe discharge option for a patient. Discharge planning should negotiate limited inpatient resources that must be distributed justly, while also considering failures of outpatient and social resources to meet the patient's needs. This essay argues that recognition of these structural

This paper discusses ethics-based strategies for mitigating bias in machine learning models used to predict sepsis onset. The first part discusses how various kinds of bias and their potential synergies can reduce predictive accuracy, especially as those biases derive from social determinants of health (SDOHs) and from the design and construction of the predictive model. The second part of the essay

Ambient intelligence systems (AIS) are increasingly deployed to provide persistent, artificially intelligent, monitoring and documentation of healthcare. AIS pose many ethical issues, including risks to the privacy of third parties, pernicious biases in predictive analytics, and intractable conflicts between the interests of patients, family members and care providers. In this paper we argue that these

Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are admitted to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization (IPH) at an alarmingly high rate. IPH is often intended for the immediate benefit and betterment of the individual, however, the result often incurs a degree of harm on the adolescent. With the rising prevalence of ASD and lack of physicians with ASD care experience, the adolescent is left with inadequate