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
Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges
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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.
- Bright-Line Policy and the Future of the Fourteen-Day Rule
- IVF, Double Effects, and Risks to Embryonic Persons
- Xenotransplantation: Injustice, Harm, and Alternatives for Addressing the Organ Crisis
- Participant Engagement, Epistemic Injustice, and Early-Phase Implanted Neural Device Research
- The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence
- Abracadabra: The Magic of Bioethics’ Rhetoric Revealed
- Shannon Vallor’s Wise Polemic against AI Enthusiasm
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.
- Challenges of Conducting Risk-Benefit Analysis of Early Phase Clinical Trials: Results of a National Survey of IRB Chairs
- Navigating Challenges with IRB Review for Community-Engaged Research with Transgender Youth in the United States
- Troubling Hope: Religious Faith and False Hope in Clinical Research Participants
- Human Research Protection Training Requirements: Alternatives for Community Researchers at CTSA-Funded Research Institutions
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
