Abstract Artificial intelligence is reshaping clinical decision‐making in ways that challenge assumptions about patient‐centered care, moral responsibility, and professional judgment. Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision‐Making , by Charles Binkley and Tyler Loftus, begins where ethical reflection on this topic should begin—in the trenches of clinical care. Together with the National Academy of Medicine's publication An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential Guidance for Aligned Action , which came out after the book, Encoding Bioethics goes a long way toward offering physicians, patients, developers, and health‐system leaders actionable guidance. Through explanation, probing questions, and case studies, Binkley and Loftus illuminate the ethical difficulties posed by opacity, bias, and shifting clinical roles. Yet their analysis stops short of identifying the governance tools and operational structures that are essential for achieving patient‐centered, morally responsible AI that strengthens clinical judgment. This review essay argues that bridging ethics and practice requires attention to psychological safety, organizational dynamics, and implementation science to ensure that AI supports—not supplants—ethical care.

Abstract Time for planning is hard to come by but essential to invest in when much is on the line for people with disabilities facing public health crises. This point is underscored in the book Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies, edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Mercer E. Gary. This collection of essays provides a disability justice lens to philosophical and pragmatic critiques of pandemic responses during Covid‐19. The book unpacks the composition and effects of misguided policies and programs on people with disabilities during the pandemic and outlines helpful recommendations. Readers will come away with a greater sense of what it takes to achieve pandemic preparedness that is focused on proactive, intersectional, and equitable solutions for people living with one or multiple disabilities. The reader will also gain an appreciation for the varied opportunities to seize before the next pandemic .

Abstract Cancer mortality has experienced a sharp decline over the past three decades. This transformation, due mostly to biomedical breakthroughs and novel therapies, raises the key question of Gluck's An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and Hope: what is it like to live in a state of chronic, existential uncertainty? In answering this question, the book subverts traditional prototypes of contemporary cancer memoirs and offers instructive insights for bioethics researchers and practitioners on treating cancer as chronic illness .

Abstract In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, Shannon Vallor excavates the moral significance of the difference between experiences such as cognition, empathy, and love that emerge in embodied beings like us, and simulacra of those experiences as produced by bodiless systems like generative AIs. She argues, helpfully and powerfully, that there is no greater existential threat to humanity than failing to remember and preserve that difference .

Abstract Tod Chambers's Redescribing Bioethics: How the Field Constructs Its Arguments reveals the rhetorical techniques that bioethicists, especially those from philosophy and religious studies, use in proving that their theory is the best solution to ethical issues in health and medicine. Like magicians, bioethicists have a pledge, turn, and prestige in presenting their work: they show an audience the case problem, hold that the extraordinary is actually ordinary, and then say that their approach is the only way through the moral morass. Rather than being original, Chambers argues, bioethicists compete on who is the better poet. This book review essay asks whether bioethicists are aware of their tools of persuasion or whether their techniques are simply part of the hidden practices of the field. By exposing the rhetoric of bioethics, Chambers's work makes clear why bioethics has become boring and is in need of some new tricks .