Children with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and the containment
response. Their caregivers must now adapt to increased stressors such as lack of access to …

Concern for human vulnerability seems to be at the heart of bioethical inquiry, but the
concept of vulnerability is under-theorized in the bioethical literature. The aim of this article is …

This line of reasoning—focusing on human capability—contrasts with the idea that health
care is special because of its impact on equality of opportunity. 6 It also differs from the …

Traditionally, the study of scheduling policies has focused on performance metrics such as
response time, queue length, and throughput. However, the more vague notion of 'fairness' …

Background Ukraine, one of the largest states formed on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is
widely perceived as a country that has lost its opportunities. Being devastated by corruption …

No empirical studies have defined the posttransplant survival that would justify expansion of
the Milan criteria for liver transplantation of hepatocellular carcinoma. We created a Markov …

The problems of racism and racially motivated violence in predominantly African American
communities in the United States are complex, multifactorial, and historically rooted. While …

The issue of medical ethics, from thorny moral questions such as euthanasia and the
morality of killing to political questions such as the fair distribution of health care resources …

The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and
affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health care systems. Someone must budget …

The past decade witnessed great progress in research on health inequities. The most widely
cited definition of health inequity is, arguably, the one proposed by Whitehead and …