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From the Editor: Choosing to Die

Abstract: Two articles in the September-October 2022 issue of the Hastings Center Report discuss health-related reasons that people might have to actively bring their lives to an end. In one,...

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Reevaluating the Ethical Issues in Porcine-to-Human Heart Xenotransplantation

Abstract: A major limiting factor with heart allotransplantation remains the availability of organs from deceased donors. Porcine heart xenotransplantation could serve as an alternative source of organs for patients with...

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Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and the Need for Community Engagement

Abstract: There are several ethical concerns facing first-in-human clinical trials involving xenotransplantation. Who should participate in these trials? If we limit trial participation to those who have exhausted other treatment...

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Burdening Others

Abstract: Many people are afraid they will, as they age or fall ill, become burdens to others. Some who fear this say they would be willing to hasten their own...

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On the Authority of Advance Euthanasia Directives for People with Severe Dementia: Reflections on a Dutch Case

Abstract: In 2016, a Dutch physician complied with the advance euthanasia directive of a patient with severe dementia. In the ensuing lawsuit, the physician was charged principally with termination of...

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U.S. Lawsuit Claims Federal Law Can Require Emergency Abortions

Abstract: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe vs. Wade, states are passing very strict antiabortion laws that the Biden administration is arguing violate the federal...

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Zoonoses and Animal Culling: The Need for One Health Policy

Abstract: One Health (OH) as a biomedical and social movement calls to reorient public health approaches toward more holistic, nonanthropocentric approaches that do not exclude the interests of animals and...

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Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong

Abstract: For much of 2021, allocating the scarce supply of Covid-19 vaccines was the world’s most pressing bioethical challenge, and similar challenges may recur for novel therapies and future vaccines....

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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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

Lori Bruce, contributing editor
Rebecca Dresser, contributing editor
Susan Gilbert, contributing editor

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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