Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: Clinical Trials Clinical trials are specifically designed to test the safety and efficacy of interventions in humans and are preceded by laboratory...

University Professor Emeritus, Scott H. Bice Professor Emeritus of Healthcare Law, Policy, and Ethics, Professor Emeritus of Law and Medicine, University of Southern California

March 1, 2023 – The Hastings Center’s Board of Directors announced the inaugural cohort of trustees emeriti, former directors whose service, expertise, leadership, and support have helped position Hastings as the world’s...

Anita L. Allen, JD, PhD, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, and Farhat Moazam, MD, PhD,...

“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...

Edited by Robert D. Truog, Nancy Berlinger, Rachel L. Zacharias, and Mildred Z. Solomon Should death be defined in strictly biological terms — as the body’s failure to maintain integrated functioning...

Activities such as continuous quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and electronic medical record review—collectively referred to as research on medical practices (ROMP)—are posing more and more challenges for meeting regulatory...

Clinical research with human subjects is key to progress in understanding and improving human health. Research of this type that is supported by the U.S. government follows a system of...

President Emeritus Thomas H. Murray Board Chairs Emeriti Harold EdgarJulius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, Emeritus – Columbia Law School, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Columbia Law School, Founding...