What Does Vulnerability Mean? Vulnerability Does Not Mean Much for Our Contemporary Morality. It is Antithetical to Our Emphasis on Individualism and Rationality; It Requires That We Attend to the Body and to Our Feelings. Yet Only by Recognizing the Depth and Breadth of Our Vulnerability can We Affirm Our Humanity (Essay) More Books by The Hastings Center Report

"Nanoethics"? What's New?

"Are Their Babies Different from Ours?" Dutch Culture and the Groningen Protocol (Letters)

The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging Technologies (Essays)

Extreme Prematurity and Parental Rights After Baby Doe: The Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 Established the Norms for Treating Disabled Newborns, But They Did Not Address the Treatment of Premature Babies. Parents and Physicians Need a Framework for Decisionmaking. A Decision Handed Down Recently by the Texas Supreme Court is a Step Forward.

The Ashley Treatment: Best Interests, Convenience, And Parental Decision-Making (Essay)

Therapeutic Misconception in the Ethics of Clinical Trials. (A Critique of Clinical Equipoise) (Hypericum Depression Trial Study Group, 2002)

"Clean" Nuclear Energy? Global Warming, Public Health, And Justice (Policy & Politics)

A Not-So-New Eugenics: Harris and Savulescu on Human Enhancement.

Medicine's Duty to Treat Pandemic Illness: Solidarity and Vulnerability: Most Accounts of Why Physicians Have a Duty to Treat Patients During a Pandemic Look to the Special Ethical Standards of the Medical Profession. An Adequate Account Must Be Deeper and Broader: It Must Set the Professional Duty Alongside Other Individual Commitments and Broader Social Values.

Clinical Ethics Consulting and Conflict of Interest: Structurally Intertwined: Clinical Ethical Consultants are Subject to an Unavoidable Conflict of Interest. Their Work Requires That They be Independent, But Incentives Attached to Their Role Chip Relentlessly at Independence. This is a Problem Without Any Solution, But It can at Least be Ameliorated Through Careful Management.

Are Alcoholics Less Deserving of Liver Transplants? when Does Behavior Trigger a Lesser Claim to Medical Resources? when Does Chronic Drinking, For Example, Mean That One has a Lesser Claim to a Liver Transplant? Only when One's Behavior Becomes a Callous Indifference to Others' Needs--when One Knows the Consequences of Heavy Drinking and Knows That by Drinking One May End up Depriving Someone else of a Liver.

Will New Ways of Creating Stem Cells Dodge the Objections?

Pushing Right Against the Evidence: Turbulent Times for Canadian Health Care.

A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill? A Swiss Case Opens a New Debate.

The Individual Rights of the Difficult Patient (Case Study) (Clinical Report)

Define "Affordable" (The Massachusetts Health Care Reform) (Essay)

Bioethics Matures: The Field Faces the Future (Essays)

Rethinking "Normal" (No Child Left Different.) (Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries.) (Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, And the Pursuit of Normality.) (Book Review)

Tales Publicly Allowed: Competence, Capacity, And Religious Belief: What should We Make of Someone Whose Beliefs Prevent Her from Accurately Understanding Her Medical Needs and Care? should That Person Still Make Her Own Health Care Decisions? in Fact, She Probably Lacks Decision-Making Capacity. But That Does Not Mean She is Not Competent.

Genetic Exceptionalism & Legislative Pragmatism: Can Passing Antidiscrimination Laws Ever be a Bad Idea? Yes, If Broad Policy Reform is Abandoned in Favor of Genetic-Specific Legislation. But in Spite of Its Serious Flaws, Both in Concept and in Practice, Genetic-Specific Legislation is Sometimes Worth Passing Anyway.