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From the Editor: Justice, Bioethics, and Covid-19
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Both articles in the November-December 2021 issue of the Hastings Center Report reflect bioethics’ growing interest in questions of justice, or more generally, questions of how collective interests constrain individual interests. Hugh Desmond argues that human enhancement should be reco...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
In Service to Others: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Human Enhancement
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In enhancement ethics, evolutionary theory has been largely perceived as supporting liberal views on enhancement, in which decisions to enhance are predominantly regulated by the principle of individual autonomy. In this article, I critique this perception in light of recent scientific de...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Divided Loyalties: Fire and ICE
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: This essay explores the challenges of dual loyalty in the emergency setting. The author, an emergency room psychiatrist, finds himself caring for a patient who has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for potential deportation under circumstances that the author ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Material Insecurity, Racial Capitalism, and Public Health
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In the influential 1995 article “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease,” Bruce Link and Jo Phelan described social and political factors as “fundamental causes” of death and disease. Whitney Pirtle has recently declared racial capitalism another such fundamental cause...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Public Deliberation about Gene Editing in the Wild
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Genetic editing technologies have long been used to modify domesticated nonhuman animals and plants. Recently, attention and funding have also been directed toward projects for modifying nonhuman organisms in the shared environment—that is, in the “wild.” Interest in gene editing non...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Genetic Control in Historical Perspective: The Legacy of India’s Genetic Control of Mosquitoes Unit
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In the early 1970s, a World Health Organization-initiated and United States-funded project released lab-reared mosquitoes outside New Delhi in the first large-scale field trials of the genetic control of mosquitoes. Despite partnering with the Indian Council of Medical Research and investi...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Deficits of Public Deliberation in U.S. Oversight for Gene Edited Organisms
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Environmental releases of gene edited (GEdOs) and gene drive organisms (GDOs) will likely occur under conditions of high uncertainty and in complex socioecological systems. Therefore, public deliberation is especially important to account for diverse interpretations of safety, risks, and b...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The Decision Phases Framework for Public Engagement: Engaging Stakeholders about Gene Editing in the Wild
November-December 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportSome experts and advocates propose environmental biotechnologies such as genetic engineering, gene drive systems, and synthetic biology as potential solutions to accelerating rates of species loss. While these tools may offer hope for a seemingly intractable problem, they also present potential gove...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
Lori Bruce, contributing editor
Rebecca Dresser, contributing editor
Susan Gilbert, contributing editor
Editorial Committee
Nancy Berlinger
Liz Bowen
Susan Gilbert
Michael K. Gusmano
Laura Haupt
Gregory E. Kaebnick
Carolyn P. Neuhaus
Erik Parens
Tod S. Chambers
Marion Danis
Rebecca Dresser
Carl Elliott
Joseph J. Fins
Christine Grady
Bradford H. Gray
Bruce Jennings
Eric Juengst
Hilde Lindemann
Jamie Nelson
Tia Powell
Annette Rid
Cynda Hylton Rushton
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