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From the Editor: Ethics Big and Small, Thinking Fast and Slow
July-August 2022
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Mask Mandates and Dilemmas of Disability Difference
July-August 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: A number of recent legal cases in the United States have considered both disability-based exceptions to Covid-19-related mask mandates and disability-based claims to stronger masking rules in states restricting the abilities of local governments to enforce mask mandates. We argue that a pr...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Do Health Care Organizations Have Legitimate Responsibilities beyond the Delivery of Health Care? Insights from Citizenship Theory
July-August 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Many health care organizations made public commitments to become antiracist in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. These actions raise questions about the appropriateness of health care’s engagement in racial justice and social justice movements generally. We argue that health care orga...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Carbon Emissions from Overuse of U.S. Health Care: Medical and Ethical Problems
July-August 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The United States health care industry is the second largest in the world, expending an estimated 479 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon dioxide per year, nearly 8 percent of the country’s total emissions. The importance of carbon reduction in health care is slowly being accepted. Howev...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Ethics of a Mandatory Waiting Period for Female Sterilization
July-August 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Due to a history of coerced sterilization, a federal Medicaid sterilization policy mandates that a specific consent form be signed by a patient at least thirty days prior to when the patient undergoes sterilization. However, in contemporary obstetrical practice, the Medicaid sterilization ...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Reproductive Embryo Editing: Attending to Justice
July-August 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The use of embryonic genome editing tools is often touted as a way to ensure the birth of healthy and genetically related children. Many would agree that this is a worthy goal. Yet the purpose of this article is to argue that, if we are concerned with justice, accepting such a goal as mora...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
The Microethics of Communication in Health Care: A New Framework for the Fast Thinking of Everyday Clinical Encounters
July-August 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In almost every clinical interaction, clinicians must navigate interpersonal challenges with near-instantaneous responses to patients. Yet medical ethics has largely overlooked these small, interpersonal exchanges, instead focusing on “big” ethical problems, such as euthanasia, brain d...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Rethinking Theory in Bioethics
July-August 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: This book review essay points to some of the more novel and controversial contributions of A Theory of Bioethics, by Joseph Millum and David DeGrazia (Cambridge University Press, 2021), such as their account of moral status. With a remarkable breadth of topics, the book is characterized by...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)
