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.
- Thinking about Hope in the Care of Cancer Patients
- “Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: How Conscience Protections Preserved Mifepristone Access”
- Epistemic Humility in the Age of Assisted Dying
- Disability, Relational Equality, and the Expressivist Objection
- Brown Noise and the Propagation of Expressivist Audist Attitudes
- Rethinking the Burden of Traditional Informed Consent Prior to Prenatal Genetic Screening
- Genome Engineering, Chemical Exposure, and the Germline: An Ethical Synthesis
- The Third Person in the Room
- Talking with Each Other about Science
- Bioethics and Optimism at Work
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.
- Undue Inducement and Disparate Impact: A Collectivist Account
- What’s in a Lie? How Researchers Judge the Justifiability of Deception
- Incorporating Gender-Neutral Language in IRB Materials: Perceptions of IRB Professionals
- Equitable Data Sharing in Collaborative Health Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Translational Bioethics Perspective
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, racism and health equity, climate change, and medical aid-in-dying. The briefs, written by leading bioethicists, are nonpartisan, describing topics from a range of perspectives that are grounded in scientific facts.
- Abortion
- Racism and Health Equity
- Environment, Ethics, and Human Health
- Medical Aid-in-Dying
- Public Health Ethics and Law
- End-of-Life Care
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data
