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Defining Death Anew: Reexamining the Twentieth-Century Brain Death Debates and the Uniform Determination of Death Act

The 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act aimed to unify the legal definition of death across jurisdictions. To gain support for the UDDA, its drafters sidestepped philosophical questions about the...
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The Enigma of Brain Death

Abstract: This is a commentary on an historical analysis by Anne E. Clinton in the Hastings Center Report’s November-December 2025 issue on the creation of the Uniform Determination of Death...
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Models of Relational Medical Decision-Making: Caregivers and Advanced Life-Sustaining Treatment

Outside the hospital, caregivers are essential to the use of advanced technologies to sustain life. Yet the value of caregivers and the benefits and burdens of care labor can easily...
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Centering Care as Normal and Valuable

Abstract: This commentary, which responds to the article “Models of Relational Medical Decision-Making: Caregivers and Advanced Life-Sustaining Treatment,” by Aaron Wightman and Georgina Campelia, in the same issue of this...
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Offering “Faux Codes”: An Ethical Option for the Patient Who Can’t Tell Their Family No

Abstract: Some patients do not want medically appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the end of life but cannot withstand family pressures to request a “full code” status. This essay defends...
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Against Offering “Faux Codes”: An Ethically Problematic Workaround

Abstract: In another essay in this issue of the Hasting Center Report, an argument is made in favor of offering a “faux code” in the setting of a patient who...
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Is Food Medicine?

Abstract: The metaphor of “food is medicine” underlies a broad range of efforts to integrate nutrition into patient-care planning. The metaphor reflects the fact that good nutrition can be as...
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Can Caregivers Ever Say No?

Abstract: In “Models of Relational Medical Decision-Making: Caregivers and Advanced Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Aaron Wightman and Georgina Campelia describe a set of increasingly nuanced models for decision-making about advanced life-sustaining technologies...
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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
Erik Parens

Robert Arnold
Liz Bowen
Tod S. Chambers
Marion Danis
Rebecca Dresser
Carl Elliott
Joseph J. Fins
Christine Grady (retired)
Bradford H. Gray (retired)
Michael K. Gusmano
Bruce Jennings
Eric Juengst
Stephen R. Latham
Thomas H. Murray
Annette Rid
Cynda Hylton Rushton
Jackie Leach Scully
Ilina Singh
Tyler Tate
Robert D. Truog
Benjamin S. Wilfond
Matthew Wynia

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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