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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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Charting New Frontiers for Black Men’s Brain Health: Implications for Dementia Research and Public Engagement

Abstract: This essay critically explores the intersection of brain health and dementia research within the context of Black men’s lived experiences. It interrogates dominant narratives of brain health that prioritize...

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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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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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Unfolding Hidden Narratives: Glimpses of an Ethos of Senses in a Dementia-Care Facility

Abstract: In this essay, I explore the possibility of meaningful communication and genuine connection within dementia-care settings, and particularly among those living with advanced dementia. Drawing on empirical research and...

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How Do Cultural Narratives Shape the Lives of People Living with Dementia? Insights from Humanities Research

Abstract: “Dementia” is a collective term for a group of common, aging-associated, progressively debilitating, ultimately terminal conditions that affect a person’s thought, memory, speech, and behavior. Dementia challenges ideas about...

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Reliable Narrators of Experience: Rethinking Dementia Narratives from Insider Perspectives

Abstract: Cultural narratives about dementia reinforce the idea that people living with the condition are unreliable narrators of their own experiences. Challenges with recall and memory and changes in language...

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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