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Covid-19, Free Exercise, and the Changing Constitution
Early View
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has brought bioethics back to five topics—justice, autonomy, expert authority, religion, and judicial decisions—that were central during its formative period but has cast a new light on each, while also tangling public health policy in the current, rather radical,...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Covid Vaccine Mandates and Religious Accommodation in Employment
Early View
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Many employers are requiring their employees to be vaccinated for Covid-19 to comply with federal, state, or local laws, or to conform to employers’ policies. Some employees object to vaccination on religious grounds. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Pediatric Off-Label Use of Covid-19 Vaccines: Ethical and Legal Considerations
Early View
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for people sixteen and older, questions arose. Parents, pediatricians, and the media wondered whether Covid-19 vaccines could be used off-label—and whether they should be. The American Academy ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
From the Editor
September-October 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, debates have waged about “crisis standards of care” (“CSC”)—the guidelines for the allocation of resources if those resources are too scarce to meet the needs of all patients. The Hastings Center Report’s September-October 2021 issue fe...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Life-Years and Rationing in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Analysis
September-October 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Prominent bioethicists have promoted the preservation of life-years as a rationing strategy in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet the philosophical justification for maximizing life-years is underdeveloped and has a complex history that is not reflected in recent literature. In this ar...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The University of California Crisis Standards of Care: Public Reasoning for Socially Responsible Medicine
September-October 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: During the Covid-19 pandemic, the University of California convened the University of California Critical Care Bioethics Working Group, a team of twenty individuals tasked with developing a set of triage procedures. This article highlights several crucial components of the UC procedures an...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The Vaccination Cold War
September-October 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Surveying the early responses to the Covid-19 pandemic among nation states, one finds a veritable babel of responses, some predictable and some not. Would these results have been different half a century or more ago, when smallpox was eradicated and hopes were high that international coope...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
“Am I safe?”
September-October 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: John’s mother had insisted that no health care providers tell him he was dying. He was fourteen, with metastases in his lungs, and I was in the position of being the doctor who would extubate him to bilevel positive airway pressure with the goals of providing comfort and getting him home...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