On January 19, the day the final revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects were published in the Federal Register, our essay “Public Engagement, Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking,...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’re now well aware of the otherhealth care mandate. The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover “preventative health...

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. From Bioethics Briefings: Conscience Clauses, Health Care Providers, and ParentsConscientious objection in health care is the refusal to perform a legal role or responsibility...

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Michelle Brown-Yazzie Michelle Brown-Yazzie is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and is of Salish & Kootenai and Oglala Lakota descent. She is of the Táchii’nii Clan and is...

The Hastings Center is pleased  to announce the election of 24 new fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has...

Institutional review boards can be inconsistent and can lack transparency in decision-making. In this issue of Ethics & Human Research, Andrea Seykora, Director of Public Policy and Legal Affairs at...

New in the Hastings Center Report: Should Many Prescription Drugs Be Available Over the Counter?    Appealing to patient autonomy, bioethicists argue for making oral contraceptives, HIV-prevention medicines, statins, and...

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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...