Hastings Center Report

From the Editor: Dependence

Abstract: The Hastings Center Report’s September-October 2023 issue is about relying on others—on loved ones, clinicians, scientists, and institutions. The lead article explores how loving relationships support and reshape the...

Hastings Center Report

A Path Forward—and Outward: Repositioning Bioethics to Face Future Challenges

Abstract: This essay explores what the future may hold for bioethics if it continues its evolution toward a field that embraces systemic, collective-level challenges; has a global scale and focus;...

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Can I Hold That Thought for You? Dementia and Shared Relational Agency

Abstract: Agency is talked about by many as something that people living with dementia lose, once they’ve lost much else—autonomy, identity, and privacy, among other things. While the language of...

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Hope and Exploitation in Commercial Provision of Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Abstract: Innovation is a key driver of care provision in assisted reproductive technologies (ART). ART providers offer a range of add-on interventions, aiming to augment standard in vitro fertilization protocols...

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The Pitfalls of Genomic Data Diversity

Abstract: Biomedical research recruitment today focuses on including participants representative of global genetic variation—rightfully so. But ethnographic attention to practices of inclusion highlights how this agenda often transforms into “predatory...

SPECIAL REPORT

Trust in Health Care and Science: Toward Common Ground on Key Concepts

Abstract: This essay summarizes key insights across the essays in the Hastings Center Report’s special report “Time to Rebuild: Essays on Trust in Health Care and Science.” These insights concern...

SPECIAL REPORT

Trust in Crises and Crises of Trust

Abstract: During times of crisis, institutions tend to focus on maintaining or restoring public trust, as well as on measures to insulate themselves (and their leadership) from potential legal liability. This...

SPECIAL REPORT

When Mistakes Multiply: How Inadequate Responses to Medical Mishaps Erode Trust in American Medicine

Abstract: In this essay, we explore consequences of the systemic failure to track and to publicize the prevalence of patient-safety threats in American medicine. Tens of millions of Americans lose...

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

Contributing Editors

Nancy Berlinger
Lori Bruce
Rebecca Dresser
Susan Gilbert
Emily Largent
Stephen Latham
Carolyn Neuhaus
Cristina Richie
Lauren Taylor

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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