As access to vaccines increases, the popular press reports waning demand for vaccines in rural residents and points to vaccine hesitancy. But there may be other reasons why doses distributed to rural areas remain unclaimed.

Publications Khush, Kiran K, James L Bernat, Richard N Pierson 3rd, Henry J Silverman, Brendan Parent, Alexandra K Glazier, Andrew B Adams, Jay A Fishman, Michael Gusmano, Wayne J Hawthorne,...

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: Nature, Human Nature, and Biotechnology Moral views about nature—claims that nature or a natural state of affairs has value—are important in contemporary...

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: Public Health Ethics and Law Public health encompasses what society does to assure the conditions that are necessary for its members to...

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...

February 7, 2023 Transcription by machine — may contain errors Elizabeth Lanphier Want to welcome you to today’s second installment of Bioethics with Bigger Impact. I’m Elizabeth Lanphier. I’m a coeditor of...

Technology ethics: Technology ethics comprises values and ethical considerations that should guide regulation and oversight, protect privacy and confidentiality, and require responsible actions in the creation and use of technology....

Like medical doctors and nurses, veterinarians experience moral distress and burnout because of the ethical conflicts they face on the job.

More than 4 million people have fled from war and terror in Ukraine. They are among the 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. What is brazenly clear is not only the impotence of the existing international apparatus designed to protect them, but also its asymmetries.

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...