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From the Editor—Variations on Consent
March-April 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Two articles in the March-April 2021 issue of the Hastings Center Report consider alterations to traditional informed consent. In “The Consent Continuum: A New Model of Consent, Assent, and Nondissent for Primary Care,” Marc Tunzi and colleagues argue that, in primary care settings, pa...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The Consent Continuum: A New Model of Consent, Assent, and Nondissent for Primary Care
March-April 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The practice around informed consent in clinical medicine is both inconsistent and inadequate. Indeed, in busy, contemporary health care settings, getting informed consent looks little like the formal process developed over the past sixty years and presented in medical textbooks, journal a...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Public Attitudes toward Consent When Research Is Integrated into Care—Any “Ought” from All the “Is”?
March-April 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Research that is integrated into ongoing clinical activities holds the potential to accelerate the generation of knowledge to improve the health of individuals and populations. Yet integrating research into clinical care presents difficult ethical and regulatory challenges, including how o...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Does a Public Health Crisis Justify More Research with Incarcerated People?
Early View
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Covid-19 has infected thousands and killed hundreds in prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities across the United States. Responding to this crisis, leading medical researchers have called for expanding opportunities for people in prison to participate in vaccine trials. These ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
In This Together: Navigating Ethical Challenges Posed by Family Clustering during the Covid-19 Pandemic
March-April 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Harrowing stories reported in the media describe Covid-19 ravaging through families. This essay reports professional experiences of this phenomenon, family clustering, as encountered during the pandemic’s spread across Southern California. We identify three ethical challenges following f...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Antiracist Praxis in Public Health: A Call for Ethical Reflections
March-April 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed myriad social, economic, and health inequities that disproportionately burden populations that have been made medically or socially vulnerable. Inspired by state and local governments that declared racism a public health crisis or emergency, the Anti-Raci...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Civic Learning When the Facts Are Politicized: How Values Shape Facts, and What to Do about It
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Social debates about highly technical topics are often driven by values yet dwell on facts. The debate about whether genetically modified organisms are acceptable in food, for example, focuses on causal claims about consumers’ health or the environment, but the language and imagery surro...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Trust: The Need for Public Understanding of How Science Works
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: General science literacy contributes to good public decision-making about technology and medicine. This essay explores the kinds of science literacy currently developed by public education in the United States of America. It argues that current curricula on “science as inquiry” (former...Read the Post
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The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences. Six issues 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
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