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Polygenic Embryo Screening: The Promise and Perils of Selecting Our Children’s Traits
“When Law, Ethics & Medicine Collide: Considering Medical Aid in Dying”
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Our Journals
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: A Coeditors’ Note
- Neuroscience and Society: Supporting and Unsettling Public Engagement
- Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post-trial Responsibilities in Neural-Device Trials
- Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post-trial Obligations
- Challenging Disability Discrimination in the Clinical Use of PDMP Algorithms
- Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation: Ethics Concerns and Policy Recommendations
- Ethical Challenges of Advances in Vaccine Delivery Technologies
- Hidden Ethical Challenges in Health Data Infrastructure
- Care or Complicity? Medical Personnel in Prisons
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