In a recent target article, Buchbinder et al. (2024) advance moral stress as a complement to the more familiar, albeit contested, concept of moral distress. They are concerned that moral distress m...

I join Buchbinder et al. (2024) in advocating the importance of distinguishing moral stress, a product of an overstressed healthcare system, and moral distress, a product of episodic clinical encou...

Buchbinder et al. are onto something (Buchbinder et al. 2024). Drawing from Alan Cribb’s work, moral stress (MS) is defined as “stress and threats to professional integrity arising from healthcare...

Moral distress is complex and has received varied definitions, and its distinctiveness is consequently often unclear when placed alongside related concepts like moral injury or moral stress. Buchbi...

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed healthcare delivery. While global health care systems became so overstretched by the volume of patients with an emergent disease, front-line clinicians f...

Our study of Moral Uncertainty in Community Health shows that community health practitioners also experience moral stress in relation to flawed systems, societal injustices, and other structural is...

We fully agree with Buchbinder et al. (2024) that there is too much focus on moral distress as arising from individual clinical encounters, as well as on individual healthcare professionals in addr...

Buchbinder and colleagues (2024) propose a conceptual distinction between moral stress, moral distress, and moral injury that is warranted given theoretical gaps regarding overstressed systems. The...

It is no secret that there are problems within hospitals and other healthcare settings across the United States that have been simmering for some time. With the emergence of the deadly SARs-CoV-2 v...

The recent work by Buchbinder et al. (2024) that draws on the experiences of clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine concepts of moral stress, injury and distress, provides a useful fram...

Rationing of healthcare resources is a strategy for crisis-aversion or crisis-prevention with its ethical roots in the theory of distributive justice. It exemplifies, the simplistic notion of conse...

In this paper, I seek to theorise the concept of pressure in relation to families’ experiences of organ donation during COVID-19. Drawing on Australia-based fieldwork, I follow circuitries of pressure in and beyond interiorities of bodies, biographies and infrastructures of care to ask what happens when pressure builds to such an extent that there is no capacity left in bodies and in institutions. Pressure concentrates in some spaces and bodies more than others revealing uneven flows and restrictions to care. But (...) how might a theorisation of pressure enable care to be imagined otherwise – to circulate differently? Extending recent care scholarship, I explore alternative versions of care enacted by families and clinicians involved in organ donation. This is an expansive and capacious care, which may offer potential to diffuse the force of pressure through radical interdependence. (shrink)

In the article “Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges to Healthcare Systems Under Pressure,” the authors delineate three primary distinctions between moral distress (MD) and moral...

In their article “Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges to Healthcare Systems Under Pressure” Buchbinder et al. (2024) provide a thoughtful conceptual distinction between moral di...

Minkoff, Vullikanit, and Marshall (2024) have advanced critical dialogue about the agency of pregnant persons, highlighting serious issues about the erosion of reproductive rights and the fall of R...

Mara Buchbinder, Alyssa Browne, Nancy Berlinger, Tania Jenkins and Liza Buchbinder (2024) set forth an admirably clear and nuanced articulation of the concept of “moral stress,” that directs attent...

To understand the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, it is crucial to examine the complex interplay between moral distress, moral injury, and moral stress. Buchbinder...

Buchbinder and colleagues (2024) offer a cogent refining of the terminology and concepts of moral distress and moral stress. Their examples of clinicians’ moral distress stemming from the crisis of...

In their article, Buchbinder et al. review the concept of moral stress to underscore the importance of recognizing different moral stressors (Buchbinder et al. 2024). Citing Cribb’s work on moral s...