The Covid-19 pandemic has been characterized by many unknowns, chief among them in the world of pediatric ethics is the question of separating mothers who are infected or suspected of being infected from their newborns after delivery to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission. Guidance on this issue is conflicting.

Editor: Martha Montello What “narrative ethics” means and how it changes clinical ethics practice has been controversial. Its proponents are agreed, however, that it is an alternative approach to “doing...

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Biographies are alphabetical by last name. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv Research Scholar, Director of Visiting Scholar Program, The Hastings Center Art Caplan, PhD Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of...

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...