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: Dependence
- Can I Hold That Thought for You? Dementia and Shared Relational Agency
- Hope and Exploitation in Commercial Provision of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- A Path Forward—and Outward: Repositioning Bioethics to Face Future Challenges
- The Pitfalls of Genomic Data Diversity
- Cultivating Peace and Health at Community Health Centers
- Past: Imperfect; Future: Tense
- Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing

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.
- Ethics of Adaptive Designs for Randomized Controlled Trials
- Stakeholder Reflections on Implementing the National Institutes of Health’s Policy on Single Institutional Review Boards
- Deprioritization of Ongoing Clinical Trials
- Translational Research and Communities
- Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing
- Lotteries as Incentives: Prospect Theory in Practice
- Simon Paul Jenkins replies
- Art as Inquiry: Techno-enmeshment of the Human Body
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