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 • Updated
- Why Bioethics Matters Today—A Journalist’s Perspective
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- Abortion • Updated
- Aging • Updated
- Assisted Reproduction
- Biobanks: DNA and Research
- Brain Injury: Neuroscience and Neuroethics • Updated
- Clinical Trials
- Cloning
- Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research
- Conscience Clauses, Health Care Providers, and Parents
- Disaster Planning and Public Health • Updated
- End-of-Life Care • Updated
- Enhancing Humans • Updated
- Environment, Ethics, and Human Health • Updated
- Family Caregiving • Updated
- Gene Patents
- Genetic Testing and Screening
- Genomics, Behavior, and Social Outcomes
- Health Care Costs and Medical Technology
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data • Updated 2021
- Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions • Updated 2020
- Intellectual Property and Biomedicine
- Medical Error
- Mental Health in Children and Adolescents
- Nanotechnology
- Nature, Human Nature, and Biotechnology • Updated
- Neonatal Care • Updated
- Newborn Screening • Updated
- Organ Transplantation • Updated
- Personalized Medicine and Genomics
- Physician-Assisted Death • Updated
- Public Health Ethics and Law • Updated
- Quality Improvement Methods in Health Care • Updated
- Research in Resource-Poor Countries • Updated
- Sports Enhancement • Updated
- Stem Cells • Updated
- Synthetic Biology
- Torture: The Bioethics Perspective • Updated