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From the Editor: Telemedicine and Healing Relationships

Abstract: In the July-August 2023 issue of the Hastings Center Report, the lead article and two responding commentaries concern how telemedicine affects the relationships that physicians have with patients or...

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The Moral Difference between Faces and FaceTime

Abstract: Although the technology for telemedicine existed before the Covid-19 pandemic, the need to provide medical services while minimizing the risk of contagion has encouraged its more widespread use. I...

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Facing Progress with Pragmatism: Telemedicine and Family Medicine

Abstract: The singular expertise of family physicians is the ability to manage complexity with pragmatism, both clinically and ethically. Telemedicine raises multiple questions about the nature of the patient-physician relationship...

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The Moral Value of Telemedicine to the Physician-Patient Relationship

Abstract: Covid-19 heralded a natural experiment with telemedicine. My experience as a clinician was very positive, and learning how to use telemedicine has made me a better doctor. Telemedicine has...

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Risk-Sensitive Assessment of Decision-Making Capacity: A Comprehensive Defense

Abstract: Should the assessment of decision-making capacity (DMC) be risk sensitive, that is, should the threshold for DMC vary with risk? The debate over this question is now nearly five...

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Smuggled Donuts and Forbidden Fried Chicken: Addressing Tensions around Family and Food Restrictions in Hospitals

Abstract: It is a common practice for family members to bring food to hospitalized loved ones. However, in some cases, this food contravenes a patient’s dietary plan. Such situations can...

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Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdowns

Abstract: Public health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic included various measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. Among these, the most restrictive was a broad category referred to as...

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Why the Gene Was (Mis)Placed at the Center of American Health Policy

Abstract: In Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health (Knopf, 2023), James Tabery traces the ascendance of personalized or precision medicine in America, arguing that...

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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Gregory E. Kaebnick, editor
Laura Haupt, managing editor
Julie Chibbaro, staff editor
Nora Porter, art director

Contributing Editors

Nancy Berlinger
Lori Bruce
Rebecca Dresser
Susan Gilbert
Emily Largent
Stephen Latham
Carolyn Neuhaus
Cristina Richie
Lauren Taylor

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

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