Our Journals
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: Dependence
- Can I Hold That Thought for You? Dementia and Shared Relational Agency
- Hope and Exploitation in Commercial Provision of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- A Path Forward—and Outward: Repositioning Bioethics to Face Future Challenges
- The Pitfalls of Genomic Data Diversity
- Cultivating Peace and Health at Community Health Centers
- Past: Imperfect; Future: Tense
- Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing
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.
- A Passing Problem: Evaluating Harm and Benefit in Autism Research
- Exclusion of Women from Phase I Trials: Perspectives from Investigators and Research Oversight Officials
- Navigating Informed Consent Requirements and Expectations in Cluster Randomized Trials: Research Ethics Board Members’ and Researchers’ Views
- Should Chatbots Be Used to Obtain Informed Consent for Research?
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
- Medical Aid-in-Dying
- End-of-Life Care
- Public Health Ethics and Law
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data
