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New Project: Ethical Challenges of Community Health Centers

Anita Allen and Farhad Moazam

Hastings Center Recognizes Anita L. Allen and Farhat Moazam with 2022 Bioethics Founders’ Award

Call for Nominations: The Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Nursing Awards

Call for Nominations: The Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Nursing Awards

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Understanding How Aging Societies Think About Dementia

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Bioethics Forum

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Could Alarm Over Genetic Manipulation Get in the Way of Environmental Conservation?

Philanthropy is Not Enough: Oil and Gas Giants Must Consider Medical Ethics

Philanthropy is Not Enough: Oil and Gas Giants Must Consider Medical Ethics

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Bioethics Briefings

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Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions

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Public Health Ethics and Law

Law Enforcement and Genetic Data

Law Enforcement and Genetic Data

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Environment, Ethics, and Human Health

Genomics, Behavior, and Social Outcomes

Genomics, Behavior, and Social Outcomes

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End-of-Life Care

Physician-Assisted Death

Physician-Assisted Death

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Abortion

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Special Reports

Critical Moment Special Report
A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti‐Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue
Gene Editing special report
Gene Editing in the Wild: Shaping Decisions through Broad Public Deliberation
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Carbon Emissions from Overuse of U.S. Health Care: Medical and Ethical Problems

Hastings Center Report
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Mask Mandates and Dilemmas of Disability Difference

Ethics & Human Research
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Ethical Criteria for Improved Human Subject Protections in Phase I Healthy Volunteer Trials