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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 2008
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field notes

Puzzling about Peter Singer
pp. 1-1(1)
Author: Parens, Erik

From the Editor

Best-Laid Editorial Plans
pp. 2-2(1)
Author: Kaebnick, Gregory E.

another voice

Putting Death in Context
pp. 3-3(1)
Author: Lederer, Susan E.

letters

Big Bang Theory: More Reason to Scrap Bush's Stem Cell Policy
pp. 4-6(3)

in practice

Peace
pp. 7-8(2)
Author: Cheng, Guang-Shing

at law

Neuroscience's Uncertain Threat to Criminal Law
pp. 9-10(2)
Author: Dresser, Rebecca

policy & politics

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: Fear Factor or Fantasy Island?
pp. 11-12(2)
Author: Wilfond, Benjamin S.

case study

Trust, Translation, and HAART
pp. 13-14(2)
Authors: Rentmeester, Christy A.; DeLancey, Dayle B.

Essays

What Are We Doing Here?: Chaplains in Contemporary Health Care
pp. 15-18(4)
Author: Jacobs, Martha R.

Ethical Grounding for a Profession of Hospital Chaplaincy
pp. 18-23(6)
Author: Mohrmann, Margaret E.

Lost in Translation: The Chaplain's Role in Health Care
pp. 23-27(5)
Authors: de Vries, Raymond; Berlinger, Nancy; Cadge, Wendy

Chaplaincy and Clinical Ethics: A Common Set of Questions
pp. 28-29(2)
Author: Smith, Martin L.

The Nature of Chaplaincy and the Goals of QI: Patient-Centered Care as Professional Responsibility
pp. 30-33(4)
Author: Berlinger, Nancy

Industry Support of Continuing Medical Education: Evidence and Arguments
pp. 34-37(4)
Authors: Goold, Susan Dorr; Campbell, Eric G.

Article

Rethinking the Ethics of Vital Organ Donations
pp. 38-46(9)
Authors: Miller, Franklin G.; Truog, Robert D.

Contributors

Contributors
pp. 52-52(1)

perspective

Pregnancy and Clinical Research
pp. 53-53(1)
Authors: Lyerly, Anne Drapkin; Little, Margaret Olivia; Faden, Ruth R.

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