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Bioethics and Optimism at Work

Abstract: In the coming years, we will be facing urgent and complex challenges—from climate change, aging societies, and structural inequities to the possible effects of emerging technologies like genomics and...

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Disability, Relational Equality, and the Expressivist Objection

Abstract: Proponents of the expressivist objection argue that the use and provision of testing to select against disability in offspring express negative judgments about existing persons with disabilities. But does...

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Brown Noise and the Propagation of Expressivist Audist Attitudes

Abstract: This commentary responds to Erik Magnusson’s Hasting Center Report article “Disability, Relational Equality, and the Expressivist Objection.” The commentary’s authoruses the setting of her classroom at Gallaudet University, the...

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Rethinking the Burden of Traditional Informed Consent Prior to Prenatal Genetic Screening

Abstract: The ethics literature and professional guidelines call for extensive discussions prior to prescreening consent to prenatal cell-free DNA screening to, theoretically, allow patients to make decisions that match their...

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Genome Engineering, Chemical Exposure, and the Germline: An Ethical Synthesis

Abstract: Concerns about the human germline in the context of genome editing have been at the forefront of contemporary bioethics, with the clear recognition that the heritability associated with such...

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Thinking about Hope in the Care of Cancer Patients

Abstract: Medical science has delivered extraordinary advances during my forty-year career as a medical oncologist. But might the science’s justified prestige unhelpfully diminish our respect for other needed forms for...

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Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: How Conscience Protections Preserved Mifepristone Access

Abstract: People in the bioethics field generally agree that clinicians should have reasonable freedom to practice according to their moral and religious convictions. But this general position leaves room for...

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Epistemic Humility in the Age of Assisted Dying

Abstract: The current debate on medical assistance-in-dying (MAID) fails to acknowledge the limitations of empirical data and the influence that cognitive biases exert in interpreting evidence and formulating arguments. This...

The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences. Six issues of the pioneering bioethics journal are published each year, containing an assortment of essays, columns on legal and policy developments, case studies of issues in clinical care and institutional administration, caregivers’ stories, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews.

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ISSN: 0093-0334; online ISSN: 1552-146X LC: 75-64303, publication no. 108810
Publisher: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
Bioethics Journal
(Ethics)(Health Care Sciences & Services)(Medical Ethics)(Social Sciences, Biomedical)

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