Hastings Center Report
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From the Editor: Learning Health Systems, Informed Consent, and Respect for Persons
May-June 2022
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Toward Meeting the Obligation of Respect for Persons in Pragmatic Clinical Trials
May-June 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Research ethics oversight systems have traditionally emphasized the informed consent process as the primary means by which to demonstrate respect for prospective subjects. Yet how researchers can best fulfill the ethical obligations of respect for persons in pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Compulsory Research in Learning Health Care: Against a Minimal Risk Limit
May-June 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Existing calls to implement learning health care systems have tended to stipulate a minimal or near-minimal risk limit for compulsory learning activities. I argue to the contrary that such a limit cannot be defended. So long as the way in which patients are compelled to participate in lear...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Learning Health Care and the Obligation to Participate in Research
May-June 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: This commentary responds to the article “Compulsory Research in Learning Health Care: Against a Minimal Risk Limit,” by Robert Steel. Steel acknowledges that our ethics framework for a learning health care system, published in the 2013 special report Ethical Oversight of Learning Healt...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
If Not Now, Then When? Taking Disability Seriously in Bioethics
Early View
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The impression of bioethicists as “dangerous,” as articulated in Mouth Magazine in 1994, has continued to be a theme in the disability movement. We respond to three common responses by bioethicists to this impression—namely, this is from the past, and bioethicists are diffe...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Facilitating Ukrainian Refugees’ Continued Participation in Clinical Trials
May-June 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing armed conflict are having a hugely damaging effect on health services and the health infrastructure in Ukraine. Hundreds of clinical trials have been halted, leaving patients without access to treatment and jeopardizing the development of prom...Read the Post - SPECIAL REPORT
Anti-Black Racism and Power: Centering Black Scholars to Achieve Health Equity
May-June 2022
Read the PostSPECIAL REPORTAbstract: In health equity research, anti-Black racism and power imbalances manifest at every phase of the research process and contribute to the marginalization and exclusion of Black scholars. This essay highlights how power operates as a central component of anti-Black racism, and I describe the ...Read the Post - SPECIAL REPORT
Black and Waiting: Bioethics and Care during the Covid-19 Pandemic
May-June 2022
Read the PostSPECIAL REPORTAbstract In this essay, a Black scholar of the cultural histories of Black women’s reproductive lives launches a discussion of generations of racism, health inequities, and violence against Black bodies by looking at Black poet and essayist Dionne Brand’s critique of the notion of return...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 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
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
Thomas H. Murray
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
Bioethics Journal
(Ethics)(Health Care Sciences & Services)(Medical Ethics)(Social Sciences, Biomedical)
