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Why Should People with Lived Experience Be Included in the DSM Revision Process?

Abstract: Increasingly, scholars and advocates are recognizing the importance of including individuals with lived experience of mental health issues in the development of psychiatric research and policy. Here, we hope...
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Making Medical Decisions for Children with Profound Cognitive Disabilities: Pluralism and the Best Interest Standard

Abstract: Requests by parents or other caregivers for treatment to prolong the lives of minors with profound cognitive disabilities can be ethically challenging. Some patients have very limited capacity for...
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A Life Worth Sustaining? Bestowed Worth and Pediatric Care

Abstract: When parents request life-sustaining treatments for children who suffer from profound neurocognitive disabilities or are at the end of life, the typical ethics advice for clinicians is to accommodate...
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Should Parents of the Deceased Have Standing to Initiate Posthumous Sperm Retrieval? Analyzing Developments in Israel

Abstract: Posthumous sperm retrieval is a complex and contentious issue that raises various ethical, legal, and social concerns. Policies regulating this practice vary globally, reflecting diverse normative approaches and cultural...
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Public Engagement as a Form of Moral Leadership

Abstract: Government leaders and social influencers are using “informed consent,” “choice,” and other bioethical terms related to autonomy to justify dramatically weakening U.S. vaccination policy. In response, we call on...
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Why Pediatric Ethics Needs a Theory of Goodness

Abstract: We begin this commentary with a brief analysis of “Making Medical Decisions for Children with Profound Cognitive Disabilities: Pluralism and the Best Interest Standard,” by Pierce Randall, and “A...
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A Parental Request for an Unproven Treatment for a Rare Pediatric Cancer: Sound Reasons for Not Going Off-Label

Abstract: We present the case of a three-year-old in remission from ependymoma whose parents requested off-label metformin in the hope that it could reduce her chance of recurrence. A prominent...
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The Case for Prescribing Metformin Off-Label for a Child in Remission from Ependymoma

Abstract: Pediatrics often faces ethical challenges when families request unproven therapies. We respond to a clinical case described in “A Parental Request for an Unproven Treatment for a Rare Pediatric...
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The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences. Six issues of the pioneering bioethics journal are published each year, containing an assortment of essays, columns on legal and policy developments, case studies of issues in clinical care and institutional administration, caregivers’ stories, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews.

To access supporting information for articles in the Hastings Center Report, such as tables, figures, and appendices that do not appear in the journal itself, see this page.

Authors come from an assortment of professions and academic disciplines and bring a range of perspectives and political opinions. We welcome submissions from new authors. The Report’s readership includes physicians, nurses, scholars of many stripes, administrators, social workers, health lawyers, and others.

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Gregory E. Kaebnick, editor
Laura Haupt, editor
Julie Chibbaro, staff editor
Nora Porter, art director

Contributing Editors

Nancy Berlinger
Lori Bruce
Rebecca Dresser
Susan Gilbert
Emily Largent
Stephen Latham
Carolyn Neuhaus
Cristina Richie
Lauren Taylor


Editorial Committee

Nancy Berlinger, Virginia Brown, Susan Gilbert, Laura Haupt, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Julia Kolak, Carolyn P. Neuhaus, and Erik Parens,
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Robert Arnold, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Liz Bowen, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Tod S. Chambers, Northwestern University
Marion Danis, National Institutes of Health
Rebecca Dresser, Washington University in St. Louis
Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota
Joseph J. Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College
Christine Grady, National Institutes of Health (retired)
Bradford H. Gray, Urban Institute (retired)
Michael K. Gusmano, Lehigh University
Bruce Jennings, Center for Humans and Nature
Eric Juengst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen R. Latham, Yale University
Thomas H. Murray, The Hastings Center for Bioethics (retired)
Annette Rid, National Institutes of Health
Cynda Hylton Rushton, Johns Hopkins University
Jackie Leach Scully, University of New South Wales
Ilina Singh, University of Oxford
Tyler Tate, Stanford University
Robert D. Truog, Harvard University; Boston Children’s Hospital
Benjamin S. Wilfond, Seattle Children’s Reserach Institute; University of Washington
Matthew Wynia, University of Colorado

ISSN: 0093-0334; online ISSN: 1552-146X LC: 75-64303, publication no. 108810
Publisher: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
Bioethics Journal
(Ethics)(Health Care Sciences & Services)(Medical Ethics)(Social Sciences, Biomedical)

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