Framing the Issue End-of-life care and its many dilemmas capture public attention when they make national news, often involving a family seeking a court order to remove life support from...

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: End of Life Care The central philosophical question in end-of-life care is how to make decisions surrounding the numerous choices about what...

“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though...

A letter from Alan Meisel on “The Evolution of Consent Forms for Research: A Quarter Century of Changes,” by Ilene Albala, Margaret Doyle, and Paul S. Appelbaum (May-Jun 2010). “When...

Debates about when life ends and treatment decision-making are regularly in the news – most recently with the California teenager and the pregnant woman in Texas declared brain dead. To...

Many of the legal and ethical options for refusing unwanted interventions are not available to people with dementia because they lack decision-making capacity. But one way for these people to...

Hastings Center Fellows are an elected group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences...