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Abstract: In the lead article in the January-February 2023 issue of the Hastings Center Report, Abram Brummett and Erica Salter provide a conceptual framework to help physicians think through the...

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Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception

Abstract: Legal precedent, professional-society statements, and even many medical ethicists agree that some situations may call for a clinician to engage in an act of lying or nonlying deception of...

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Expanding Paid Sick Leave Laws: The Public Health Imperative

Abstract: A key public health measure has received far too little attention over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic: paid sick leave policies that encourage people at risk of spreading...

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Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid-19 Critical Care

Abstract: This ethnographic study introduces the term “distressed work” to describe the emergence of chronic frictions between moral imperatives for health care workers to keep working and the dramatic increase...

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Deception, Pain, and Placebo: Applying the Brummett-Salter Deception Framework

Abstract: In this commentary, I explore the usefulness of the framework Abram Brummett and Erica K. Salter present in their article “Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception.” Deception cases...

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Justifying Clinical Deception: Some Amendments to Brummett and Salter

Abstract: In Abram Brummett and Erica K. Salter’s excellent paper, “Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception,” they rightly note that it is sometimes ethically appropriate for health care professionals...

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Public Health at the Kitchen Table: Lessons from the Home HIV Test’s Long Road to Approval

Abstract: Home diagnostic testing is becoming part of the modern medical landscape, but many ethical and policy questions remain unresolved. Most of them first surfaced during the long regulatory deliberations...

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Vulnerability, Autonomy, and the Living Organ Donor

Abstract: The Living Organ Donor as Patient: Theory and Practice, by Lainie Friedman Ross and J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr. (Oxford University Press, 2021), offers a stimulating opportunity to consider the...

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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