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From the Editor: Heart and Soul
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The lead article in this January-February 2021 issue—the first of the Hastings Center Report’s fiftieth year of publication—does not set out to change medicine. It tries instead to understand it. In “A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and the Lived Body,” Mary Jean Walker dr...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and the Lived Body
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The use of artificial organs is likely to increase in the future, given technological advances, increases in chronic diseases, and limited donor organs. This article examines how artificial organs could affect people’s experience and conceptualization of bodies and our understanding of t...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Civic Learning for a Democracy in Crisis
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: This essay introduces a special report from The Hastings Center entitled Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose, which grew out of a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This multiauthored report offers wide-ranging assessme...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Recommendations for Better Civic Learning: Building and Rebuilding Democracy
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: This is the concluding essay for a special report from The Hastings Center entitled Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose, which grew out of a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This essay provides an integrative discussi...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid-19
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The allocation of vaccines and therapeutics for Covid-19 obviously raises ethical questions, and physicians and ethicists have begun to address them. Writers have identified various criteria that should guide allocation decisions, but the criteria often conflict and need to be balanced aga...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: It now seems technically feasible to culture human embryos beyond the “fourteen-day limit,” which has the potential to increase scientific understanding of human development and perhaps improve infertility treatments. The fourteen-day limit was adopted as a compromise but subsequently ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Nation states in the twenty-first century confront new challenges to their political legitimacy. Borders are more porous and less secure. Infectious disease epidemics, climate change, financial fraud, terrorism, and cybersecurity all involve cross-border flows of material, human bodies, an...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Can Our Schools Help Us Preserve Democracy? Special Challenges at a Time of Shifting Norms
January-February 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Civic education that prepares students for principled civic participation is vital to democracy. Schools face significant challenges, however, as they attempt to educate for democracy in a democracy in crisis. Parents, educators, and policy-makers disagree about what America’s civ...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
Susan Gilbert, contributing editor
Rebecca Dresser, contributing editor
Stephen R. Latham, contributing editor
Editorial Committee
Nancy Berlinger
Susan Gilbert
Michael K. Gusmano
Laura Haupt
Gregory E. Kaebnick
Carolyn P. Neuhaus
Erik Parens
Tod S. Chambers
Rebecca Dresser
Carl Elliott
Joseph J. Fins
Christine Grady
Brad Gray
Bruce Jennings
Eric Juengst
Hilde Lindemann
Jamie Nelson
Tia Powell
Annette Rid
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