AI & Medicine
Neonatal bioethics, artificial intelligence,
and genomics.
What does it mean to make a clinical decision well, when an algorithm has already made one for you?
John D. Lantos is a pediatrician and bioethicist. For four decades he has worked at the intersection of clinical medicine and moral philosophy, writing about how families, doctors, and institutions decide what we owe each other when the stakes are highest. His current work focuses on artificial intelligence in medicine, its promises, its hazards, and the kinds of judgment it cannot replace. His essays appear in JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, the Hastings Center Report, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Aeon. He delivered the TEDx talk Writing Our Last Chapter.
A field of arguments
What he writes about, organized by argument rather than chronology.
- AI & MedicineAlgorithms, judgment, and the lost aura of the physician.41 pieces
- Neonatal & NICU EthicsDecisions at the edge of viability.203 pieces
- End-of-Life DecisionsWhen more medicine isn't more care.88 pieces
- Organ DonationTreating donors as philanthropists, not vendors.46 pieces
- Clinical Ethics ConsultationWhat good ethics looks like at the bedside.61 pieces
- Pediatric BioethicsThe four decades of the canon.319 pieces
From the desk
What I have been writing, lately.
A small library
A selection of books.
An honest, beautifully written meditation on what we ask of doctors and what we owe to babies who cannot speak for themselves.
The standard reference for clinicians and ethicists working in the neonatal intensive care unit.
A collection that anticipated, by twenty-five years, the questions we are now asking about machines and judgment.
Stage and microphone
Available for podcasts, lectures, and conferences on AI in medicine, neonatal ethics, and clinical decision-making at the edge of life.
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