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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 - 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 - Hastings Center Report
Handle with Care: The WHO Report on Human Genome Editing
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: The World Health Organization’s recent Report on Human Genome Editing departs from similar reports from other institutions in that it recognizes that ethical assessments of the technology are deeply complex, surprisingly fragile, and subject to practical and political considerations. The...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Anti-Black Racism as a Chronic Condition
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: Because America has a foundation of anti-Black racism, being born Black in this nation yields an identity that breeds the consequences of a chronic condition. This article highlights several ways in which medicine and clinical ethics, despite the former’s emphasis on doing no harm and th...Read the Post - Hastings Center Report
Speaking Volumes: The Encyclopedia of Bioethics on Racism
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: This essay takes as its starting point the claim that addressing anti-Black racism is essential to the work of bioethics in the United States. The essay examines whether and how racism has been addressed in the field’s central reference work, the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, throughout its...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 - Hastings Center Report
Is Trust Enough? Anti-Black Racism and the Perception of Black Vaccine “Hesitancy”
March-April 2022
Read the PostHastings Center ReportAbstract: In this article, I offer a preliminary exploration of the heavy lifting that the word “trust” is doing in questions about Black distrust of medicine and what, if anything, comes from it. I also offer an account of why questions like, “Why don’t Black people trust vaccines?” are n...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