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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

September-October 2008
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field notes

Career moves
pp. 1-1(1)
Author: Gilbert, Susan

From the Editor

The Value of a Drug
pp. 2-2(1)
Author: Kaebnick, Gregory E.

another voice

Learning from Clinical Experience
pp. 3-3(1)
Author: Baily, Mary Ann

letters

The Sex Kitten of Bioethics?: Research Ethics Comes of Age
pp. 4-7(4)

in practice

Nursing Home Contradictions
pp. 8-9(2)
Author: Feldman, Rosalind

at law

International Development Assistance for Health: Ten Priorities for the Next President
pp. 10-11(2)
Author: Gostin, Lawrence O.

policy & politics

Too Hot for Politics to Handle? Hard Questions about Health Insurance
pp. 12-14(3)
Author: Menzel, Paul T.

case study

An Uncomfortable Refusal
pp. 15-16(2)
Authors: Duhon, Gary; Moazam, Farhat

Essays

Physician-Assisted Death in the United States: Are the Existing "Last Resorts" Enough?
pp. 17-22(6)
Author: Quill, Timothy E.

Confronting Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: My Father's Death
pp. 23-26(4)
Author: Wolf, Susan M.

Terminal Sedation: Pulling the Sheet over Our Eyes
pp. 27-30(4)
Author: Battin, Margaret P.

Organized Obfuscation: Advocacy for Physician-Assisted Suicide
pp. 30-32(3)
Author: Callahan, Daniel

What's in a Name?: The Controversy over "Disorders of Sex Development"
pp. 33-36(4)
Authors: Feder, Ellen K.; Karkazis, Katrina

Web of Care: How Will the Electronic Medical Record Change Medicine?
pp. 36-38(3)
Author: Fins, Joseph J.

Articles

Comparing Drug Effectiveness at Health Plans: The Ethics of Cluster Randomized Trials
pp. 39-48(10)
Authors: Sabin, James E.; Mazor, Kathleen; Meterko, Vanessa; Goff, Sarah L.; Platt, Richard

Hope and Exploitation
pp. 49-55(7)
Author: Martin, Adrienne M.

Contributors

Contributors
pp. 56-56(1)

perspective

Stigma, Hysteria, and HIV
pp. 57-57(1)
Author: Parmet, Wendy E.

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