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CASE STUDY
Doctor, Will You Turn Off My LVAD?"
FROM THE EDITOR
Reforming Health Care Reform
LETTERS
Social Justice Is a Global Issue: Ethical Pandemic Planning
PERSPECTIVE
Lethal Injections: Medicine and Research
ESSAYS
Belief in a Just World: A Case Study in Public Health Ethics
ARTICLES
A Path to Universal Access
ARTICLES
Ending the Life of a Newborn: The Groningen Protocol
FROM THE EDITOR
What Should HCR Publish?
LETTERS
Needed: A Modest Proposal
AT LAW
Protecting Women from Their Abortion Choices
PERSPECTIVE
We Need a Registry of Living Kidney Donors
ESSAYS
What I Learned from Schiavo
September/October
FROM THE EDITOR
Patient Doctors
LETTERS
Human vs. Posthuman
IN PRACTICE
Compromise
POLICY & POLITICS
The Ashley Case: The Public Response and Policy Implications
ESSAYS
Improving Access to Health Care: A Consensus Ethical Framework to Guide Proposals for Reform
July/August
FROM THE EDITOR
Liberty and Solidarity
LETTERS
Taking Religion Seriously
IN PRACTICE
Saving Sylvia Cleary
AT LAW
The Cash Nexus
May/June
FROM THE EDITOR
Secrets and Open Societies
Just Deserts?
The Curious Case of Off-Label Use
A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill? A Swiss Case Opens a New Debate
March/April
FROM THE EDITOR
The Problem with Trust and Sympathy
Habermas’s The Future of Human Nature
The Doctor’s Wife
The Ashley Treatment: Best Interests, Convenience, and Parental Decision-Making
January/February
FROM THE EDITOR
Mary and Jane
LETTERS
The Price of Compromise: The Massachusetts Health Care Reform
ESSAYS
How Turning a QI Project into “Research” Almost Sank a Great Program
ARTICLES
Tales Publicly Allowed: Competence, Capacity, and Religious Belief
SPECIAL REPORT
Patents, Biomedical Research, and Treatments: Examining Concerns, Canvassing Solutions
Wonderful Children
Online Update
Privatizing the Department of Defense: A Proposal
Where Nowhere Can Lead You
September/October
FROM THE EDITOR
Bipartisan Health Reform?
LETTERS
Bioethics with Blinders
PERSPECTIVE
Carcinogenic Diagnosis
ESSAYS
The New Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Half a Step Forward and Three Steps Back
ARTICLES
Embryo Biopsy for Stem Cells: Trading Old Problems for New
July/August
FROM THE EDITOR
Two Calls for Papers
LETTERS
The Ordeal of Practicing Care
IN PRACTICE
Outing the Hidden Curriculum
PERSPECTIVE
Smokescreen
ESSAYS
May Doctors Refuse Infertility Treatments to Gay Patients?
SPECIAL REPORT
The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Health Care Quality and Safety
May/June
FROM THE EDITOR
In Praise of Reading Carefully
LETTERS
Matters of “Life” and “Death”
ESSAYS
The Costs of Caring: Who Pays? Who Profits? Who Panders?
REVIEWS
The President’s Council Calls for Prudence
REVIEWS
The President’s Council on Autonomy: Never Mind!
March/April
FROM THE EDITOR
Stem Cells: Starting Over?
LETTERS
Do Researchers Learn to Practice Misbehavior?
POLICY AND POLITICS
No Method, Thus Madness?
ESSAY
Magic Eggs and the Frontier of Stem Cell Science
ESSAY
Sex, Politics, and Morality at the FDA: Reflections on the Plan B Decision
January/February
FROM THE EDITOR
Stem Cells: The Next Steps
LETTERS
Protection of Human Subjects and Scientific Progress: Can the Two Be Reconciled?
CASE STUDY
Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say: A Patient's Conflicting Preferences for Care
PERSPECTIVE
Pay for Performance: The Next Best Thing
ESSAY
Stem Cell Trials: Lessons from Gene Transfer Research
FROM THE EDITOR
Index as Diagnosis
LETTERS
Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances
PERSPECTIVE
Privacy and Security for Electronic Health Records
ESSAY
Stem Cell Politics: The NAS Prohibitions Pack More Bark than Bite
ESSAY
Stem Cell Protocols: The NAS Guidelines Are a Useful Start
2005 INDEX AND MANUSCRIPT REVIEWERS
2005 INDEX AND MANUSCRIPT REVIEWERS
SPECIAL REPORT
Improving End of Life Care: Why Has It Been So Difficult?
September/October
FROM THE EDITOR
Rethinking the Ethics of Research
LETTERS
Conscientious Autonomy: What Patients Do vs. What Is Done to Them
IN PRACTICE
Indiscretions
CASE STUDY
Shouldering the Burden of Care
ARTICLE
Making Research Requirement of Treatment: Why We Should Sometimes Let Doctors Pressure Patients to Participate in Research
July/August
FROM THE EDITOR
Making Policy
LETTERS
Civil Disobedience: The Devil Is in the Details
IN BRIEF
The Afterlife of Terri Schiavo
CASE STUDY
Before He Wakes
ESSAY
Doctors of Interrogation
ESSAY
Bioethics Matures: The Field Faces the Future - Programs represented at a Minneapolis meeting.
ARTICLE
Creating Fido’s Twin: Can Pet Cloning Be Ethically Justified?
May/June
FROM THE EDITOR
Liberals and Conservatives
LETTERS
The Nutrition and Hydration
PERSPECTIVE
Euthanasia Is Out of Control in the Netherlands
ESSAY
Hard Cases and the Politics of Righteousness
ESSAY
The Fall-out of the Pharma Scandals: The Loss of Doctors’ Credibility?
March/April
ESSAY
Rethinking
Disorders of Consciousness: New Research and Its Implications
ESSAY
The
Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis, Again
January/February
IN BRIEF
Will New Ways of Creating Stem Cells Dodge the Objections?
Genetic Privacy, Abandonment, and DNA Dragnets: Is Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence Adequate?
Online Publication of the Hastings Center Report
November/December
FROM THE EDITOR
How
to Think About Stemming an Insurgency
Plan
B: Politics and Values at the FDA, Again
One
Loss May Hide Another
Rights
are Still Right: The Case for Disability Rights
September/October
ESSAY
Pharma
Goes to the Laundry: Public Relations and the Business of Medical Education
IN PRACTICE
Hijacking
Prescriptions
July/August
ARTICLE
Genetic Research and Communal Narratives
Uncharitible Care?
Manufacturing Consensus May/June
REVIEW
Enhancement as an American Dilemma
Schiavo: A Hard Case Makes Questionable Law
Fair Benefits in International Medical Research March/April
CASE STUDY
Is the Patient Always Right?
The Failure of the Living Will
ES Cell Research: In the Shadow of the Ban
The President's Council: Fair and Balanced? January/February
ANOTHER VOICE
Medical Research and Media Circuses
Benumbed
The United Nations and Human Cloning: A Debate on Hold
Billing Practices
Uninsured, Unwanted, Unworthy? November/December
IN BRIEF
New Life Forms: New Threats, New Possibilities
The Debate Over Residents' Work Hours
Fair Access to Stem Cells
Avoiding Cheap GraceSeptember/October
ANOTHER VOICE
Bioethics and Human Rights
The Stories We Tell Ourselves May/June
ESSAY
Eve Redux: The Public Confusion over Cloning
Putting Medicaid at Risk
It's a Small World after All: Ethics and the Response to SARS March/April
PERSPECTIVE
Taking Africa Seriously
January/February
PERSPECTIVE
The Point of a Ban Or, How to Think about Stem Cell Research
Last Updated 12 May 2008
