Bioethics Briefings
Hastings Center Bioethics Briefings contains overviews of issues in bioethics of high public interest, such as abortion, brain injury, organ transplantation, physician-assisted death, and stem cell research. The chapters, written by leading ethicists, are nonpartisan, describing topics from a range of perspectives that are grounded in scientific facts. They each include experts to contact and resources.
Contents
- Bioethics and Policy—A History
- The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
- Abortion
- Aging
- Brain Injury: Neuroscience and Neuroethics
- Clinical Trials
- Climate Change
- Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice
- Conscience Clauses, Health Care Providers, and Parents
- Disaster Planning and Public Health
- End-of-Life Care
- Enhancing Humans
- Environment, Ethics, and Human Health
- Family Caregiving
- Genomics, Behavior, and Social Outcomes
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data
- Medical Aid-in-Dying
- Nature, Human Nature, and Biotechnology
- Neonatal Care
- Newborn Screening
- Organ Transplantation
- Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions
- Public Health Ethics and Law
- Quality Improvement Methods in Health Care
- Racism and Health Equity
- Research in Resource-Poor Countries
- Sports Enhancement
- Stem Cells
- Torture: The Bioethics Perspective