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Editor’s Note: Ethicists and Activists
July-August 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In some sense, argues Christopher Meyers in the lead article in this, the July-August 2021, issue of the Hastings Center Report, to be a good ethicist is to be an activist. The question for the ethicist, and for Meyers, is about how hard and far to push: how much personal risk to shoulder,...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Activism and the Clinical Ethicist
July-August 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Although clinical ethics scholarship and practice has largely avoided assuming an activist stance, the many health care crises of the last eighteen months motivated a distinct change: On listserves, in blog postings, and in published essays, activist language has permeated conversations ov...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Opioid Treatment Agreements and Patient Accountability
July-August 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract:Opioid treatment agreements are written agreements between physicians and patients enumerating the risks associated with opioid medications along with the requirements that patients must meet to receive these medications on an ongoing basis. The choice to use such agreements goes beyond the...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma that Brain Death Is Biological Death
July-August 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Drawing on a recent case report of a pregnant, brain-dead woman who gave birth to a healthy child after over seven months of intensive care treatment, this essay rejects the established doctrine in medicine that brain death constitutes the biological death of the human being. The essay des...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
A Realpolitik for Presidential Health: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective
July-August 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The health and fitness of United States presidents has been a matter of concern since the Constitutional Convention. Several United States presidents, including James Madison, James Garfield, and Woodrow Wilson, were significantly impaired during portions of their tenure. Yet how...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Care Ethics versus the CARES Act
July-August 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: One of the biggest policy interventions during the last year of the COVID-19 pandemic was the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Securities Act, instituting a novel form of economic relief similar to a universal basic income. The economic impact payments, colloquially known as “stimul...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Activism and Bioethics: Taking a Stand on Things That Matter
July-August 2021
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The question of whether activism should be overtly embraced as part of the bioethicist’s role deserves serious consideration. Like others, we agree that bioethics is inescapably partisan; bioethical deliberation is based on trying to determine morally relevant features of situations and ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Alzheimer’s and Aducanumab: Unjust Profits and False Hopes
July-August 2021
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
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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