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: Bioethics’ Conceptual Tool
- Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics
- Dignity and the Founding Myth of Bioethics
- Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care
- Refusal of Representation in Advance Care Planning: A Case-Inspired Ethical Analysis
- Cruzan after Dobbs: What Remains of the Constitutional Right to Refuse Treatment?
- To Understand Inequity, Bioethics Needs to Sort Things Out
- An Ambitious Goal: A Grounded, Informed, and Compelling Theological Bioethics
- The Business of Medicine Fails Many American Patients
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.
- Making an Advance Research Directive: An Interview Study with Adults Aged 55 and Older with Interests in Dementia Research
- Offering Lottery Entry as an Incentive for Research Participation Compromises Informed Consent
- A Competency Framework for Health Research Ethics Educational Programs: Results from a Stakeholder-Driven Mixed-Method Process
- Translational Bioethics and Health Privacy
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
- Physician-Assisted Death
- End-of-Life Care
- Public Health Ethics and Law
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data