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.
- Genre Modification
- “Please baptize my son”: The Case against Baptizing a Dying, Unconscious Atheist”
- The Case for Baptizing a Dying, Unconscious Atheist
- The Need for Bioethics Departments in HBCU Medical Schools
- The Insult of Involuntary Adoption and the Moral Seriousness of Motherhood
- Inferring Mental States from Brain Data: Ethico-legal Questions about Social Uses of Brain Data
- A Prescriptive Metaphysics of Death
- Religion v. Science? No and Yes
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.
- (Epistemic) Injustice and Resistance in Canadian Research Ethics Governance
- Ethical Considerations for Conducting Community-Engaged Research with Women Experiencing Homelessness and Incarcerated Women
- Investigating Moral Distress in Clinical Research Professionals—A Deep Dive into Troubled Waters
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
