Recently added articles from The Hastings Center Report:
Jay Katz, 1922-2008.(field notes)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The obituaries reporting Jay Katz's death on November 17 typically described him as an authority on medical ethics and an advocate for the rights of patients and research subjects. This characterization by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Yale Daily News, and other ...
Natural light.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This issue of the Hastings Center Report features a set of essays that comes out of a Hastings Center research project, "The Ideal of Nature: Appeals to Nature in Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment," for which I was the principal investigator. The project was supported by a ...
Battling a thousand points of might.(another voice)
Jan 01, 2009; ... When placed between disclosure and capacity--its loud and unruly siblings--voluntariness can be seen as the neglected middle-child of informed consent. By my count of articles invoking consent on PubMed, for every one that mentions voluntariness, roughly three mention capacity. This seems ...
Every child is priceless: debating effective newborn screening policy.(letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... To the Editor: "Ethics, Evidence, and Cost in Newborn Screening," by Mary Ann Baily and Thomas H. Murray, and "Expanding Newborn Screening: Process, Policy and Priorities," by Virginia Moyer, Ned A. Calonge, Steven M. Teutsch, and Jeffrey Botkin (May-June 2008) raise significant questions, ...
Bioethics forum: www.bioethicsforum.org.(REPORT: Online Services)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... "Washington's New Suicide Law Reflects Unfair Prejudices" BY BEN MATTLIN The problem with physician-assisted suicide is that it presumes euthanasia is a rational choice for someone in dire straits, based solely on that person's diagnosis. If, on the other hand, a ...