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From the Editor: Third Parties
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The lead article in the Hastings Center Report’s November-December 2020 issue reconsiders the rationale for requiring that patients have a prescription from a physician to obtain a drug. Madison Kilbride, Steve Joffe, and Holly Fernandez Lynch conclude that growing respect for patient au...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Prescription Requirements and Patient Autonomy: Considering an Over-the-Counter Default
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: When new drugs are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the default assumption is that they will be available by prescription only, safe for use exclusively under clinical supervision. The paternalism underlying this default must be interrogated in order to ensure appropriate resp...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The Social Risks of Science
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Many instances of scientific research impose risks, not just on participants and scientists but also on third parties. This class of social risks unifies a range of problems previously treated as distinct phenomena, including so-called bystander risks, biosafety concerns arising from gain-...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Health Research and Social Justice Philosophy
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Situating medical and scientific research within a framework or theory of social justice is long overdue. Attempting to extend principles of research ethics beyond the clinic and lab to other affected people or consequences tolerates or obfuscates injustice. While it must be done, the...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Realizing Present and Future Promise of DIY Biology and Medicine through a Trust Architecture
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The speed and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the limits of current health systems and the potential promise of non-establishment research such as “DIY” research. We consider one example of how DIY research is responding to the pandemic, discuss the challenges faced by D...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
CASE STUDY: A Small-Town Heart
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Melanie presented at twenty weeks of gestation to an obstetrics clinic in a critical access hospital in rural Vermont. She was excited to undergo routine fetal ultrasonography, but her obstetrician gave her grave news: the ultrasound revealed hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a devastat...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
OK, Boomer, MD: The Rights of Aging Physicians and the Health of Our Communities
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: How do we balance the rights of aging physicians against the right of the public to competent health care? This version of a classic public health ethics dilemma is here now and likely to increase as the population ages. Peer review has long been the standard mechanism for assessing physic...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Structural Injustices in Our Nonideal World
November-December 2020
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Madison Powers and Ruth Faden’s book Structural Injustice: Power, Advantage, and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019), is an invaluable contribution to help us grasp the contemporary ills of our nonideal world. The authors’ general claim is that the concept of structural inju...Read the Post
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Gregory E. Kaebnick, editor
Laura Haupt, managing editor
Julie Chibbaro, staff editor
Nora Porter, art director
Susan Gilbert, contributing editor
Rebecca Dresser, contributing editor
Stephen R. Latham, contributing editor
Editorial Committee
Nancy Berlinger
Susan Gilbert
Michael K. Gusmano
Laura Haupt
Gregory E. Kaebnick
Carolyn P. Neuhaus
Erik Parens
Tod S. Chambers
Rebecca Dresser
Carl Elliott
Joseph J. Fins
Christine Grady
Brad Gray
Bruce Jennings
Eric Juengst
Hilde Lindemann
Jamie Nelson
Tia Powell
Annette Rid
Ilina Singh
Robert D. Truog
Benjamin S. Wilfond
Matthew Wynia
ISSN: 0093-0334; online ISSN: 1552-146X
LC: 75-64303, publication no. 108810
Publisher: The Hastings Center