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With essays questioning the reliability of DNA forensics and the universality of medical ethics around the globe, and articles on when doctors may know best after all and dark humor in medicine.
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With five essays weighing in on the ethics of pursuing synthetic biology and an article that envisions how medical research and medical care might be ethically integrated with the same health care system.
With articles that question the ethical prohibitions against physician participation in capital punishment and torture, an essay on surrogate health care decisions and same-sex relationships, and three essays from the Report's fortieth anniversary contest for young scholars exploring how bioethics should be done.
With articles on whether it is sound practice to always provide hard data about treatment risks and benefits to patients and the possible ramifications of viewing research as morally obligatory, as well as a Special Report on diagnosing and treating psychiatric illness in children, and why values and context play such an important role when doing both.
With four essays on how design benefits patient care and business and two articles that question some common arguments offered in favor of shaping children through reprogenetics.
With an article and commentaries on the ethics of growth attenuation for children with profound disabilities and four essays from the Report's fortieth anniversary contest on what issues bioethics should tackle in the future.
With essays on personalized medicine, an article on the policies and practices of Oregon hospices regarding physician-assisted death, and an article on improving treatment decision-making for incapacitated patients.
With essays on books exploring bioethics through story and an article on problems for the fair benefits approach to international research.
With essays on the prospects of using fMRI to communicate with patients with severe brain injuries; and using MRI scans to guide end-of-life decisions. Articles on donation after cardiac death; an examination of current guidelines in the use of palliative sedation; and duties to warn relatives about risks or sudden cardiac death
This issue of the Hastings Center Report offers a set of essays that explore fairness in sports—what it requires, and what is necessary to ensure it.
With articles by Joseph Millum on bioprospecting and Michael Gross on medicalized weapons and modern war, essays by Shawneequa Callier, John Huss, and Eric Juengst on preemployment background checks, Connie Ulrich, Ann Hamric, and Christine Grady on moral dillemmas faced by health professionals, and Ilina Singh on coercion in research
With five essays on comparative effectiveness research, an article on credentialing, privileging, quality, and evaluation in clinical ethics consultation, and and an article on the reasoning about risks in pregnant women for both patients and doctors.
With an article by John Arras and Elizabeth Fenton on bioethics and human rights, and another by Hilde Lindemann on lessons in moral theory from the Dutch.
Featuring four essays on The Hastings Center at forty and a set of essays on assisted reproductive technologies
Articles on decision-making at the end of life
Six essays on parents' decisions about cosmetic surgery for children
Featuring six essays on health care chaplaincy
Featuring four essays on physician-assited death in the United States.
Lead article on helping children stay healthy: parents' choices, social forces, and justice
With articles on newborn screening: assessing the benefits, evaluating the recommended screening panel
Including essays on the state of human subjects protections: can the oversight system avert a crisis?
A feature article, with commentaries, on how health care reform could combine public and private solutions
With a feature article on the federalist approach to public policy
With an article on what "patient autonomy" means in the age of the Internet
Including essays on how best to regulate reprogenetic technologies
With articles on research ethics: acknowledging paternalism, promoting community participation
Feature article on what the social determinants of health tell us about health care reform
Articles on comprehension and competence and a special report, "Patents, Biomedical Research, and Treatments: Examining Concerns, Canvassing Solutions"
