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Xenotransplantation: Injustice, Harm, and Alternatives for Addressing the Organ Crisis

Abstract: Xenotransplantation is increasingly touted as the solution to the organ crisis. Some bioethicists, however, have raised concerns about xenotransplantation’s implications for health justice and animal welfare. We develop and...
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Participant Engagement, Epistemic Injustice, and Early-Phase Implanted Neural Device Research

Abstract: In recent years, participant engagement initiatives in research on implanted neural devices have significantly increased. However, there remains little consensus on the motivations, goals, and best practices for engagement...
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The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence

Abstract: In the summer of 2018, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported clinical trials at Hennepin County Medical Center in which emergency medical personnel were injecting agitated individuals with ketamine, often...
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IVF, Double Effects, and Risks to Embryonic Persons

Abstract: The Alabama Supreme Court recently held that embryos are children for purposes of the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, causing in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to halt...
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Bright-Line Policy and the Future of the Fourteen-Day Rule 

Abstract: As global science leaders revisit the fourteen-day rule for human embryo research, this commentary explores why its clarity, stability, and the public trust it has fostered have made it...
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History and the Challenges of Dementia

Abstract: Much has been written about the biological, clinical, and epidemiological aspects of dementia. Dire, sometimes apocalyptic social and policy issues have been identified and discussed, and scores of books...
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Implicit Narratives in Participatory Arts Collaborations with People with Lived Experiences of Dementia

Abstract: Over the past decade, participatory arts programs for people with lived experience of dementia have expanded in scale, number, and approach, both in North America and the United Kingdom....
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From Self-Advocacy to Solidarity: Narrating Disability and Dementia beyond Personal Identity

Abstract: Does the pursuit of disability justice for people with demen­tia require that people with dementia personally identify as disabled? On one level, self-repre­sentation has been a critical strategy for...
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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
Bradford H. Gray
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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