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The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences. Six issues are published each year, containing an assortment of essays, columns on legal and policy developments, case studies of issues in clinical care and institutional administration, caregivers' stories, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews. Authors come from an assortment of professions and academic disciplines and bring a range of perspectives and political opinions. We welcome submissions from new authors. The Report's readership includes physicians, nurses, scholars of many stripes, administrators, social workers, health lawyers, and others.

Publisher: The Hastings Center

November-December 2006
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Field Notes

Field Notes
pp. 1-1(1)
Author: Johnston, Josephine

From the Editor

Wonderful Children
pp. 2-2(1)

Another Voice

Children and Parents and Medical Decisions
pp. 3-3(1)
Author: Aspinall, Cassandra

Letters

In Brief

Shades of Gray: New Insights into the Vegetative State
pp. 8-8(1)
Authors: Fins, Joseph J.; Schiff, Nicholas D.

At Law

Investigational Drugs and the Constitution
pp. 9-10(2)
Author: Dresser, Rebecca

Policy & Politics

Two Cheers for Conscience Exceptions
pp. 11-12(2)
Author: Asch, Adrienne

Case Study

Moral Priorities in a Teaching Hospital
pp. 13-14(2)
Authors: Rentmeester, Christy A.; O'Brien, Richard L.

Essays

Controversial Medical Treatment and the Right to Health Care
pp. 15-20(6)
Author: Robertson, John A.

The Sociobiology of Humanism
pp. 20-22(3)
Author: Lantos, John

Where Nowhere Can Lead You
pp. 22-24(3)
Author: Bond, Alex

Articles

Children's Competence to Consent to Medical Treatment
pp. 25-34(10)
Authors: Alderson, Priscilla; Sutcliffe, Katy; Curtis, Katherine

Liberal Eugenics & Human Nature: Against Habermas
pp. 35-42(8)
Author: Fenton, Elizabeth

Manuscript Reviewers—2006

Contributors

Contributors
pp. 48-48(1)

Perspective

Privatizing the Department of Defense: A Proposal
pp. 49-49(1)
Author: Callahan, Daniel

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