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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.

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For “All of Us”? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge

May-June 2020

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Looking for the Psychosocial Impacts of Genomic Information

May-June 2019

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Defining Death: Organ Transplantation and the Fifty-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death
November-December 2018

SPECIAL REPORT

What Makes a Good Life in Late Life? Citizenship and Justice in Aging Societies
September-October 2018

SPECIAL REPORT

The Ethics of Sequencing Newborns: Reflections and Recommendations
July-August 2018

SPECIAL REPORT

Governance of Emerging Technologies:
Aligning Policy Analysis with the Public’s Values
January-February 2018

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Just Reproduction: Reimagining Autonomy in Reproductive Medicine
November-December 2017

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Recreating the Wild:  De-Extinction, Technology, and the Ethics of Conservation
July-August 2017

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NFL Player Health: The Role of Club Doctors
November-December 2016

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Nurses at the Table: Nursing, Ethics, and Health Policy
September-October 2016

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The Genetics of Intelligence
September – October 2015

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Synthetic Future: Can We Create What We Want Out of Synthetic Biology?

November-December 2014

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LGBT Bioethics: Visibility, Disparities, and Dialogue

September-October 2014

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The Intersection of Research Fraud and Human Subjects Research: A Regulatory Review
July-August 2014

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Interpreting Neuroimages: An Introduction to the Technology and Its Limits
March-April 2014

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Narrative Ethics: The Role of Stories in Bioethics

January-February 2014

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Ethical Oversight of Learning Health Care Systems

January-February 2013

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Animal Research Ethics

November-December 2012

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Troubled Children: Diagnosing, Treating, and Attending to Context

March–April 2011

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Good Health Care by Design

January-February 2011

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Personalized Medicine: Will It Work? Where Will It Take Us?

September–October 2010

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Sports and the Search for Fairness

March-April 2010

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Would Better Medical Evidence Lead to Better Health Care?

November–December 2009

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The Hastings Center at Forty: A Look at Its Founding Four Issues

May-June 2009

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Children’s Bodies, Parents’ Choices

January–February 2009

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Connecting American Values with Health Reform

August 2009

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Reassessing Human Subjects Protections

March-April 2008

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Regulating Reprogenetics

July–August 2007

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The Five People You Meet in a Pandemic—And What They Need from You Today

November 2007

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Patents, Biomedical Research, and Treatments: Examining Concerns, Canvassing Solutions

January–February 2007

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The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Health Care Quality & Safety

July–August 2006

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Improving End of Life Care: Why Has It Been So Difficult?

July–August 2006

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Genetic Differences & Human Identities

January–February 2004

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Promoting Patient Safety: An Ethical Basis for Policy Deliberation

November–December 2003

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Reprogenetics and Public Policy: Reflections and Recommendations

July–August 2003

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Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers

March–April 2003

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Ethics and Trusteeship for Health Care

July–August 2002

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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

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What Could Have Saved John Worthy?

July–August 1998

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Is Better Always Good? The Enhancement Project

January–February 1998