Events
The Future of Bioethics: Challenges, Visions and Opportunities
Valuing Older Adults by Creating Housing Options: Real-World Insights from Collaborative Research
Genetics/AI/Big Data: Impact on Maternal and Child Health/NAM annual meeting
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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: Telemedicine and Healing Relationships
- The Moral Difference between Faces & FaceTime
- Facing Progress with Pragmatism: Telemedicine and Family Medicine
- The Moral Value of Telemedicine to the Physician-Patient Relationship
- Risk-Sensitive Assessment of Decision-Making Capacity: A Comprehensive Defense
- Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdowns
- Smuggled Doughnuts and Forbidden Fried Chicken: Addressing Tensions around Family and Food Restrictions in Hospitals
- Global Efforts to Protect Healthy Volunteers
- Why the Gene Was (Mis)Placed at the Center of American Health Policy
- Love Is Good, but Does It Have Teeth?
- Tyler Tate replies

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.
- The Essential Need for Trust When Transmission Risk Cannot Be Eliminated in HIV-Remission Trials
- Factors Associated with IRB Review Time in a Non-Federally Funded Study Using an sIRB of Record
- Antiracist Structural Intervention at the Emory University Institutional Review Board
- Translational Bioethics and Public Input
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