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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.

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September-October 2007

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Field Notes

field notes
pp. 1-1(1)

perspective

Patient Doctors
pp. 2-2(1)
Author: Kaebnick, Gregory E.

Another Voice

Helping Patients Become “Competent Inquirers”
pp. 3-3(1)
Author: Reisman, Anna B.

Letters

Human vs. Posthuman
pp. 4-7(4)

In Practice

Compromise
pp. 8-9(2)
Author: Cheng, Guang-Shing

At Law

Policy & Politics

The Ashley Case: The Public Response and Policy Implications
pp. 12-13(2)
Author: Wilfond, Benjamin S.

Essays

Improving Access to Health Care: A Consensus Ethical Framework to Guide Proposals for Reform
pp. 14-19(6)
Authors: Levine, Mark A.; Wynia, Matthew K.; Schyve, Paul M.; Teagarden, J. Russell; Fleming, David A.; Donohue, Sharon King; Anderson, Ron J.; Sabin, James; Emanuel, Ezekiel J.

Unanswered Questions: Bioethics and Human Relationships
pp. 20-23(4)
Author: Cassell, Eric J.

Pushing Right against the Evidence: Turbulent Times for Canadian Health Care
pp. 24-26(3)
Authors: Kenny, Nuala; Chafe, Roger

Articles

HOW DO PATIENTS KNOW?
pp. 27-35(9)
Author: Kukla, Rebecca

Reviews

Getting Over the Denial of Aging
pp. 44-45(2)
Author: Moody, Harry R.

On Making Compassion Tangible
pp. 46-46(1)
Author: Carson, Ronald A.

Bioethics Made Rigorous
pp. 47-47(1)
Author: Schwab, Abraham P.

Contributors

Contributors
pp. 48-48(1)

perspective

Disability and Slippery Slopes
pp. 49-49(1)
Author: J. Tarzian, Anita

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