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The Hastings Center Report
The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences.
- From the Editor: Deception and Distress
- Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception
- Justifying Clinical Deception: Some Amendments to Brummett and Salter
- The Problem of Clinical Deception and Why We Cannot Begin in the Middle
- Deception, Pain, and Placebo: Applying the Brummett-Salter Deception Framework
- Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid-19 Critical Care
- Louisiana’s “Medically Futile” Unborn Child List: Ethical Lessons in the Post-Dobbs Intersection of Reproductive and Disability Justice
- Expanding Paid Sick Leave Laws: The Public Health Imperative
- Public Health at the Kitchen Table: Lessons from the Home HIV Test’s Long Road to Approval
- The Obligation of Engagement
- Vulnerability, Autonomy, and the Living Organ Donor
- In Defense of Openness—Genetic Knowledge and Gamete Donation
- On Psychological Continuity and Dementia
- Henri Wijsbek and Thomas Nys Respond
Ethics & Human Research
Ethics & Human Research (formerly IRB: Ethics & Human Research) aims to foster critical analysis of issues in science and health care that have implications for human biomedical and behavioral research, including developments that bring new challenges to existing ethical, regulatory, and policy frameworks governing research with humans in the United States and elsewhere.
- Can the Research Team-Participant Relationship Ground Ancillary-Care Obligations?
- Public Policy Experiments without Equipoise: When Is Randomization Fair?
- Factors That Impact Hospital-Specific Enrollment Rates for a Neonatal Clinical Trial: An Analysis of the HEAL Study
Special Reports
Special Reports to the Hastings Center Report present the results of research projects. Reports may be single-authored or collections of essays prepared by members of project working groups, consensus documents, or lively conversations among those who reached differing moral conclusions about a project’s central questions.
Bioethics Briefings
Bioethics Briefings contain overviews of issues of high public interest, such as abortion, climate change, organ transplantation, and physician-assisted death. The briefs, written by leading ethicists, are nonpartisan, describing topics from a range of perspectives that are grounded in scientific facts.
- Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions
- Abortion
- Environment, Ethics, and Human Health
- Physician-Assisted Death
- End-of-Life Care
- Public Health Ethics and Law
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data