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Knowing the Mind from Brain Data: The Challenge of Prediction and the Fairness of Relying on Objective Data about the Mind

Abstract: This article is the second in a series examining the ethical and social implications of inferring mental states from brain data. It considers two main topics. First, it discusses...

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Maintaining Health Care in Occupied Ukraine: Criminal Collaboration or Conscientious Professionalism?

Abstract: Following Russia’s occupation of Eastern Ukraine, local health care professionals, particularly hospital administrators and public health officials, have faced criminal charges of medical collaboration for taking senior managerial positions...

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Governance of Direct-to-User Digital Mental Health Tools: Emphasizing Transparency over Paternalism

Abstract: Digital mental health tools are increasingly used outside traditional clinical settings, creating an engagement paradigm beyond the existing regulatory scope, as noted by Amitabha Palmer and David Schwan in...

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Will an Enhanced Child Have Less Freedom? A U.S. Nationally Representative Survey Experiment

Abstract: One of the many arguments against the genetic enhancement of children is that the children enhanced in this way would have restricted freedom by being controlled by the design...

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The Ethics of Humanlikeness in AI Therapy Chatbots

Abstract: What is a good use of digital mental health technologies, including AI therapy chatbots (AITCs)? In my commentary on Amitabha Palmer and David Schwan’s article “Digital Mental Health Tools...

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Making America Healthy Again: Remedies for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Campaign against Chronic Disease

Abstract: Chronic diseases impose enormous health and economic burdens in the United States, especially on marginalized populations, and demand evidence-based, equity-focused interventions. To combat chronic disease, the Trump administration established...

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The Fundamental Fallacy of “Empathic AI”

Abstract: “Empathic AI” is being adopted in clinics as a means of offloading some of the work of clinician-patient encounters. Indeed, a recent study reported that generative large language models...

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Why We Can Thrive past Seventy-Five: In Favor of Efforts to Extend the Human Lifespan

Abstract: About ten years ago, Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an article extolling the benefits of dying at seventy-five. Since then, longevity and aging interest, research, and funding have exploded. Much of...

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.

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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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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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