Special Reports
Special Reports to the Hastings Center Report are one venue in which the Center publishes the results of its research projects. Reports may be single-authored or collections of essays prepared by members of project working groups, consensus documents, or lively conversations among those who reached differing moral conclusions about a project’s central questions.
Essay sets organized around topical issues in bioethics appear periodically in the Hastings Center Report. They consist of commentaries, analyses, and journalistic reporting that provide depth and perspective on bioethics developments in the news.
Some of the special reports and other publications are available for free download; others have selected content available for free. To order other Hastings Center Report special reports please contact John Wiley & Sons customer support at 800-835-6770 or cs-journals@wiley.com.
Special reports:
Volume 54, Issue S1, Facing Dementia: Clarifying End‐of‐Life Choices, Supporting Better Lives, January-February 2024, Edited by: Nancy Berlinger, Emily A. Largent, Mara Buchbinder, Mildred Z. Solomon
Volume 53, Issue S2, Time to Rebuild: Essays on Trust in Health Care and Science, September‐October 2023, Edited by: Lauren A. Taylor, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Mildred Z. Solomon
Volume 53, Issue S1, The Ethical Implications of Social and Behavioral Genomics, March‐April 2023, Edited by: Erik Parens, Michelle N. Meyer
Volume 52, Issue S2, Creating Chimeric Animals: Seeking Clarity on Ethics and Oversight, November‐December 2022, Edited by: Karen J. Maschke, Margaret M. Matthews, Kaitlynn P. Craig, Carolyn P. Neuhaus, Insoo Hyun, Josephine Johnston
Volume 52, Issue S1, A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti‐Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue, March‐April 2022, Edited by: Faith E. Fletcher, Keisha S. Ray, Virginia A. Brown, Patrick T. Smith
Volume 51, Issue S2, Gene Editing in the Wild: Shaping Decisions through Broad Public Deliberation, November‐December 2021, Edited by: Michael K. Gusmano, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Karen J. Maschke, Carolyn P. Neuhaus, Ben Curran Wills
Volume 51, Issue S1, Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose, January‐February 2021, Edited by: Gregory E. Kaebnick, Michael Gusmano, Bruce Jennings, Carolyn P. Neuhaus, Mildred Z. Solomon
Volume 50, Issue S1, For “All of Us”? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge, May-June 2020, Edited by: Joel Michael Reynolds, Erik Parens
Volume 49, Issue S1, Looking for the Psychosocial Impacts of Genomic Information, May-June 2019, Edited by: Erik Parens, Paul S. Appelbaum
Volume 48, Issue S4, Defining Death: Organ Transplantation and the Fifty‐Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death, November-December 2018
Volume 48, Issue S3, What Makes a Good Life in Late Life? Citizenship and Justice in Aging Societies, September-October 2018, Edited by: Nancy Berlinger, Kate de Medeiros, Mildred Z. Solomon
Volume 48, Issue S2, The Ethics of Sequencing Newborns: Reflections and Recommendations, July-August 2018
Volume 48, Issue S1,Governance of Emerging Technologies: Aligning Policy Analysis with the Public’s Values, January-February 2018
Volume 47, Issue S3, Just Reproduction: Reimagining Autonomy in Reproductive Medicine, November-December 2017
Volume 47, Issue S2, Recreating the Wild: De‐Extinction, Technology, and the Ethics of Conservation, July-August 2017
Volume 47, Issue S1, Goals and Practice of Public Bioethics: Reflections on National Bioethics Commissions, May-June 2017
Volume 46, Issue S2, NFL Player Health: The Role of Club Doctors, November/December 2016
Volume 46, Issue S1, Nurses at the Table: Nursing, Ethics, and Health Policy, September/October 2016
Volume 45, Issue S1, The Genetics of Intelligence: Ethics and the Conduct of Trustworthy Research Edited by Erik Parens and Paul S. Appelbaum, September/October 2015
Volume 44, Issue S5, Can We Create What We Want Out of Synthetic Biology? Edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick, Michael K. Gusmano, and Thomas H. Murray, November-December 2014
Volume 44, Issue s4, LGBT Bioethics Visibility, Disparities, and Dialogue Edited by Tia Powell and Mary Beth Foglia, September-October 2014
Volume 44, Issue s3, The Intersection of Research Fraud and Human Subjects Research: A Regulatory Review, edited by Barbara E. Bierer and Mark Barnes, July-August 2014
Volume 44, Issue s2, Interpreting Neuroimages: An Introduction to the Technology and Its Limits, edited by Josephine Johnston and Erik Parens, March-April 2014
Volume 44, Issue s1, Narrative Ethics: The Role of Stories in Bioethics, edited by Martha Montello, January-February 2014
Volume 43, Issue s1, Ethical Oversight of Learning Health Care Systems, Edited by Mildred Z. Solomon, Ann C. Bonham, January-February 2013
Older special reports:
Animal Research Ethics, November-December 2012
Troubled Children: Diagnosing, Treating, and Attending to Context, March–April 2011
Good Health Care by Design, January-February 2011
Personalized Medicine: Will It Work? Where Will It Take Us?, September–October 2010
Sports and the Search for Fairness, March-April 2010
Would Better Medical Evidence Lead to Better Health Care?, November–December 2009
The Hastings Center at Forty: A Look at Its Founding Four Issues, May-June 2009
Children’s Bodies, Parents’ Choices, January–February 2009
Connecting American Values with Health Reform, August 2009
Reassessing Human Subjects Protections, March-April 2008
Regulating Reprogenetics, July–August 2007
The Five People You Meet in a Pandemic—And What They Need from You Today, November 2007
Patents, Biomedical Research, and Treatments: Examining Concerns, Canvassing Solutions, January–February 2007
The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Health Care Quality & Safety, July–August 2006
Improving End of Life Care: Why Has It Been So Difficult?, July–August 2006
Genetic Differences & Human Identities, January–February 2004
Promoting Patient Safety: An Ethical Basis for Policy Deliberation, November–December 2003
Reprogenetics and Public Policy: Reflections and Recommendations, July–August 2003
Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers, March–April 2003
Ethics and Trusteeship for Health Care, July–August 2002
A Global Profession: Medical Values in China and the U.S., July–August 2000
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Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing, September–October 1999
What Could Have Saved John Worthy?, July–August 1998
Is Better Always Good? The Enhancement Project, January–February 1998