As a therapist, clinical ethicist and trauma researcher specializing in moral injury and moral distress, I know well the damaging effects of when a person’s core moral foundations are violated in high ...

After a workshop on values and imagery at a healthcare conference in Cincinnati, I first encountered the term moral injury in a startling and heartbreaking context. Two officials from the United ...

When we began exploring the concept of moral injury to explain the deep distress that U.S. health care professionals feel today, it was something of a thought experiment aimed at erasing the ...

Seeing a disabled person as fully human takes what one philosopher calls "moral energy." For families, that energy runs out—not because they stop caring, but because no one helps.

I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in ...