Several states have changed their policies in recent years to make involuntary commitment easier for people with severe mental illnesses. But forced treatment still raises civil rights questions, with ...

Social change is a tangle of ethical puzzles. As we work to build a better world, we find ourselves confronted with human complexity: Different people have different beliefs about what is right; ...

UK scientists seeking approval to deliberately infect healthy people with COVID-19 in trials must first convince ethics specialists that, among other things, they have potential "rescue therapies" or ...

Moral and ethical decisions come with the turf of being a doctor. Some of those decisions have massive consequences that affect people's lives forever. Other ethical issues, although not ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

What should you do if you catch your boss breaking the law? That's just one of the moral dilemmas examined in the latest "Now What Do I Do?" column, a regular feature in O, The Oprah Magazine.

Ethical dilemmas are important puzzles with no easy answers but are fun to contemplate. Of course, they exist in all forms of counseling, from short-term advising to long-term therapy, from eating ...

The bar allowing young girls to compete in professional football has continuously lowered in recent years. It’s a dangerous trend that could lend its hand to some severe problems. In a sport with a ...