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Disinformation, Trust, and the Role of AI: The Daniel Callahan Annual Lecture
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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.
- Conscientious Provision of Care
- Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience
- Conscience, Disobedience, and Standard of Care
- Conscience, Caricatures, and Catholic Identities
- Neither Ethical nor Prudent: Why Not to Choose Normothermic Regional Perfusion
- In Defense of Normothermic Regional Perfusion
- Experiential Training in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: A Risk-Benefit Analysis
- Gender and Sport
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.
- Research with Refugee Populations in North America: Applying the NIH Guiding Principles for Ethical Research
- Single IRB Review and Local Context Considerations: A Scoping Review
- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Routine Clinical Practice: Practical Guidance for Institutional Review Boards
- Rationale and Study Checklist for Ethical Rejection of Participants on Crowdsourcing Research Platforms
- Translational Bioethical Decision-Making: Human Brain Organoids as a Case Study
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