Format: Articles & Briefs
How to Hold Policymakers Accountable
Learn how to effectively advocate for issues you care about by reaching out to your public representatives and holding them accountable.
Challenging the Way We Produce and Consume Food
The COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities to change how we produce and consume food.
Why Justice for Animals Is the Social Movement of Our Time: Reflections from a Human Rights Doctor
While we still need to make further progress on behalf of vulnerable human populations, the rights of people and animals are not mutually exclusive.
The Ethical Challenges of Animal Research: Honoring Henry Beecher’s Approach to Moral Problems
In 1966, Dr. Henry K. Beecher drew attention to common moral problems in human research. A deep dive reveals similar moral problems with animal research.
Animals Deserve Research Protections People Get
Learn how our institutions could better respond to monumental shifts in our understanding of and concern for animals.
A Belmont Report for Animals?
The Belmont Report published key ethical principles to which human research should adhere. The same principles can be extended to nonhuman animals.
Movement—Animal and Human—Key to Pandemics
The novel coronavirus tested how Americans respond to restrictions of their civil liberties, and it provided an opportunity to reevaluate freedom of movement.
The Phoenix Effect: Turning Vulnerability into Resilience
The Phoenix Effect reveals how individuals who have endured trauma—war, abuse, and displacement—can rise from the proverbial ashes and thrive.
Rethinking the Ethics of Research Involving Animals
This issue of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics explores the ethics of research involving animals and creative ways to reimagine our treatment of other animals.
Reenvisioning Our Research Agenda
The time has come to create a national medical and public health research agenda that is shaped by an inclusive and holistic social, economic, and cultural paradigm.