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From the Editor: Ethics and Structure
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In the Hastings Center Report’s March-April 2022 issue, Diana Anderson, an architect and physician, and her colleagues examine ways in which aspects of the physical design of health care facilities can function as health interventions. The authors identify the kinds of ethical questions ...Read the Post - SPECIAL REPORT
Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Bioethics: Responding to the Call
March-April 2022
Read the PostSPECIAL REPORTAbstract: As a field concerned with ethical issues in health and health care, particularly how structures, policies, and practices unfairly advantage some and disadvantage others, bioethics has a moral obligation to address the long-standing challenges that racism has posed to the overall health and...Read the Post - SPECIAL REPORT
Holding Them Accountable: Organizational Commitments to Ending Systemic Anti-Black Racism in Medicine and Public Health
March-April 2022
Read the PostSPECIAL REPORTAbstract: In this essay, I detail commitments that some of the major health organizations—the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—have made to addressing anti-Black racism and discuss their policies meant to cur...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
New Findings on Unconsented Intimate Exams Suggest Racial Bias and Gender Parity
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Testimony from hundreds of medical students and numerous physicians and scholars suggests that unconsented intimate exams (UIEs) are unlikely to be rare, isolated incidents. However, much is unknown about the frequency of these exams and the circumstances in which they take place. The Comm...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The Bioethics of Built Space: Health Care Architecture as a Medical Intervention
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Decisions made in health care architecture have profound effects on patients, families, and staff. Drawing on research in medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, design is being used increasingly often to alter specific behaviors, mediate interpersonal interactions, and affect patient outc...Read the Post - SPECIAL REPORT
Anti-Black Racism and Power: Centering Black Scholars to Achieve Health Equity
March-April 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 - 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
Industry Technicians Embedded in Clinical Teams: Impacts on Medical Knowledge
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Advances in implantable medical devices have increased the role for industry-employed allied professionals (IEAPs) in providing training and support during surgical procedures and follow-up care. The effect of these changes on the organization of medical knowledge and the sharing of inform...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)
