Events
Supporting Aging Through Housing: Engaging the Imagination of Policymakers and Publics
Polygenic Embryo Screening: The Promise and Perils of Selecting Our Children’s Traits
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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.
- Navigating University Openness in Research Policy Inconsistent with Indigenous Data Sovereignty: A Case Analysis
- Rapid Review of Therapy Protocols for Public Health Emergencies
- Returning Clinically Relevant Research Results to Participants: Guidelines for Investigators and the IRB
- Should Researchers Destroy Audio or Video Recordings?
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