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From the Editor: Justice through a Wide-Angle Lens
May-June 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In the lead article of the May-June 2021 issue of the Hastings Center Report, Nancy Jecker and Caesar Atuire argue that the Covid-19 crisis is best understood as a syndemic, “a convergence of biosocial forces that interact with one another to produce and exacerbate clinical disease and p...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Alzheimer’s and Aducanumab: Unjust Profits and False Hopes
Early View
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Accelerated approval of aducanumab for mild Alzheimer’s by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on June 7, 2021, has generated substantial medical, scientific, and ethical controversy. That approval was contrary to the nearly unanimous judgment of the FDA’s Advisory Committee that lit...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Regulating AI in Health Care: The Challenges of Informed User Engagement
Early View
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The European Union’s proposed Artificial Intelligence Act is a welcome, ambitious law on the regulation of AI systems. However, it underestimates the responsibilities placed on individual users to navigate the implementation of AI. Focusing on the health care sector, this policy piece ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Gene Editing: How Can You Ask “Whether” If You Don’t Know “How”?
May-June 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Though questions about whether gene editing should be done at all have dominated ethical discussion, a literature about how it can be done ethically has been growing. Work on responsible translational pathways for human germline gene editing has been criticized for focusing on the wrong qu...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
In the Name of Racial Justice: Why Bioethics Should Care about Environmental Toxins
May-June 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Facilities that emit hazardous toxins, such as toxic landfills, oil refineries, and chemical plants, are disproportionately located in predominantly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous neighborhoods. Environmental injustices like these threaten just distribution of health itself, including acces...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
What Has Covid-19 Exposed in Bioethics? Four Myths
May-June 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed four myths in bioethics. First, the flood of bioethics publications on how to allocate scarce resources in crisis conditions has assumed authorities would declare the onset of crisis standards of care, yet few have done so. This leaves guidelines in limbo ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Ending One’s Life in Advance
May-June 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: If you developed Alzheimer disease, would you want to go all the way to the end of what might be a decade-long course? Some would; some wouldn’t. Options open to those who choose to die sooner are often inadequate. Do-not-resuscitate orders and advance directives depend on others’ coop...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Reciprocity and Liability Protections during the Covid-19 Pandemic
May-June 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: During the Covid-19 pandemic, as resources dwindled, clinicians, health care institutions, and policymakers have expressed concern about potential legal liability for following crisis standards of care (CSC) plans. Although there is no robust empirical research to demonstrate that liabilit...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