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Hastings Conversations: Working with Erik Parens

Abstract: However helpful have been the papers, reports, and books Erik Parens has produced while at The Hastings Center, conversation with him has always been even better. In both his...
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Can I Get a Witness? The Ethical Dimensions of Family Presence in Patient Suffering

Abstract: For patients who are suffering, the bedside presence of a family member can provide comfort, and many people hold that there is moral value in being present with a...
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Moral Worlds and Institutional Scripts at the End of Life

Abstract: This commentary responds to Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and colleagues’ article, “Can I Get a Witness? The Ethical Dimensions of Family Presence in Patient Suffering.” The authors examine clinicians’ moral distress...
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“Where are they?” The Range and Implications of Clinician Reactions to Absent Families

Abstract: In “Can I Get a Witness? The Ethical Dimensions of Family Presence in Patient Suffering,” Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and colleagues ask us to scrutinize “the instinct to blame families” who...
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Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science

Abstract: Scientific research increasingly involves large, multidisciplinary teams networked across multiple institutions to develop new technologies. Despite the rise of complex research networks and big team science, there has been...
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Bearing Witness at the Bedside: The Role-Specific Obligations of Surrogate Decision-Makers

Abstract: In “Can I Get a Witness? The Ethical Dimensions of Family Presence in Patient Suffering,” Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and colleagues ask whether there is a duty for family members to...
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Preventing the Diffusion of Moral Responsibility in Big Team Science: Taking an Ecosystem Approach

Abstract: Long-standing frameworks for the ethics of biomedical research are being challenged on multiple fronts by seismic shifts in the way science is practiced. One such shift, which is the...
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Mapping the Scientific Mesolevel: Where Are We Aiming?

Abstract: Susan Wolf et al.’s article “Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science” aims to provide analysis of ethics at the...
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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 Editor
Rebecca Dresser



Editorial Committee

Nancy Berlinger, Virginia Brown, Susan Gilbert, Laura Haupt, Gregory E. Kaebnick, and Julia Kolak
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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)
Carolyn P. Neuhaus, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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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