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From the Editor: Bioethics’ Conceptual Tool Kit

Abstract: Two articles in the March-April 2023 issue of the Hastings Center Report challenge principlism and propose new moral frameworks for bioethics. In the lead article, Tyler Tate and Joseph...
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Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics

Abstract: This article presents a radical claim: American medical ethics is broken, and it needs love to be healed. Due to a unique set of cultural and economic pressures, American...
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Dignity and the Founding Myth of Bioethics

Abstract: In this article, I reject the “principlism” of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress and argue that respect for autonomy is, and ought to be, the fundamental value of bioethics....
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Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care

Abstract: Over the past several decades in which access to abortion has become increasingly restricted, parents’ autonomy in medical decision-making in the realms of fetal care and neonatal intensive care has...
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Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility

Abstract: In this consensus report by a diverse group of academics who conduct and/or are concerned about social and behavioral genomics (SBG) research, the authors recount the often-ugly history of...
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Wrestling with Public Input on an Ethical Analysis of Scientific Research

Abstract: Bioethicists frequently call for empirical researchers to engage participants and community members in their research, but don’t themselves typically engage community members in their normative research. In this article,...
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Refusal of Representation in Advance Care Planning: A Case-Inspired Ethical Analysis

Abstract: Unrepresented patients—people without capacity to make medical decisions who also lack a surrogate decision-maker—form a large and vulnerable population within the United States health care system. The burden of...
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Cruzan after Dobbs: What Remains of the Constitutional Right to Refuse Treatment?

Abstract: In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court removed constitutional protection from the individual’s right to end a pregnancy. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Court invalidated previous rulings...
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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 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.

To access supporting information for articles in the Hastings Center Report, such as tables, figures, and appendices that do not appear in the journal itself, see this page.

Authors come from an assortment of professions and academic disciplines and bring a range of perspectives and political opinions. We welcome submissions from new authors. The Report’s readership includes physicians, nurses, scholars of many stripes, administrators, social workers, health lawyers, and others.

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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


Editorial Committee

Nancy Berlinger
Liz Bowen
Susan Gilbert
Michael K. Gusmano
Laura Haupt
Gregory E. Kaebnick
Carolyn P. Neuhaus
Erik Parens

Robert Arnold
Tod S. Chambers
Marion Danis
Rebecca Dresser
Carl Elliott
Joseph J. Fins
Christine Grady
Bradford H. Gray
Bruce Jennings
Eric Juengst
Hilde Lindemann
Thomas H. Murray
Jamie Nelson
Annette Rid
Cynda Hylton Rushton
Jackie Leach Scully
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
Bioethics Journal
(Ethics)(Health Care Sciences & Services)(Medical Ethics)(Social Sciences, Biomedical)

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