Our Mission
We address social and ethical challenges in medicine, healthcare, science, and technology wisely and responsibly.
Our Vision
Engage diverse voices in informed conversations to address bioethical challenges.
Our work strives to:
- promote justice & equity
- remove systemic barriers to health & human flourishing
- reinstate trust & trustworthiness in medicine and science
Our Values
-Independence
-Justice & Equity
-Inclusiveness & Diversity
-Rigor & Excellence
-Relevance & Impact
-Integrity & Moral Courage
Events
Building Trust: AI Governance and Ethics in Medicine and Health, NAM Annual Conference
A Dialogue on the Work of Nancy Neveloff Dubler (1941-2024): ASBH Conference
Ethical Considerations for Using AI to Predict Suicide Risk: ASBH Conference
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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.
- Euthanasia as Medical Therapy in Canada
- Making America Healthy Again: Remedies for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Campaign against Chronic Disease
- Will an Enhanced Child Have Less Freedom? A U.S. Nationally Representative Survey Experiment
- Knowing the Mind from Brain Data: The Challenge of Prediction and the Fairness of Relying on Objective Data about the Mind
- Maintaining Health Care in Occupied Ukraine: Criminal Collaboration or Conscientious Professionalism?
- The Values That Influence Psychiatric Diagnosis and Accountability
- God 2.0
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.
- Engaging Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Social and Health Studies in Australia: Research and Ethical Challenges
- Acceptability and Feasibility of Using Educational Incentives for Research Participation to Advance Antiracism
- Revisiting the Obligation to Share Aggregate Results with Research Participants in the Era of Open Science
- Our Theater of Anonymity
- Reconsidering Open-Ended Consent for Biospecimen and Health Record Research in the United States and Europe
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
