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“When Law, Ethics & Medicine Collide: Considering Medical Aid in Dying”
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The Hastings Center Report
The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences.
- From the Editors: The Ethic of Accompaniment
- The Pandemic of Invisible Victims in American Mental Health
- Holding the Guardrails on Involuntary Commitment
- The Power of Proximity: Toward an Ethic of Accompaniment in Surgical Care
- Do Suicide Attempters Have a Right Not to Be Stabilized in an Emergency?
- What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children?
- How Seeking Transfer Often Fails to Help Define Medically Inappropriate Treatment
- Additional Steps for Maintaining Public Trust in the FDA
- Leah Z. Rand, Daniel P. Carpenter, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Anushka Bhaskar, Jonathan J. Darrow, and William B. Feldman Reply
Ethics & Human Research
Ethics & Human Research (formerly IRB: Ethics & Human Research) aims to foster critical analysis of issues in science and health care that have implications for human biomedical and behavioral research, including developments that bring new challenges to existing ethical, regulatory, and policy frameworks governing research with humans in the United States and elsewhere.
- Should Children Be Included in Human Challenge Studies?
- Ethics in Mental Health Research with Haitian Migrants: Lessons from a Community-Based Study in Santiago, Chile
- What Is “Key Information”? Consideration of the Reasons People Do or Do Not Take Part in Research
- Translational Research and Health Equity: Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease as a Case Study
Special Reports
Special Reports to the Hastings Center Report present the results of 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.
Bioethics Briefings
Bioethics Briefings contain overviews of issues of high public interest, such as abortion, climate change, organ transplantation, and physician-assisted death. The briefs, written by leading ethicists, are nonpartisan, describing topics from a range of perspectives that are grounded in scientific facts.
- Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions
- Abortion
- Environment, Ethics, and Human Health
- Medical Aid-in-Dying
- End-of-Life Care
- Public Health Ethics and Law
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data