The Hastings Center Report

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

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

Rethinking the Ethics of Vital Organ Donations: Accepted Medical Practice Already Violates the Dead Donor Rule. Explicitly Jettisoning the Rule--Allowing Vital Organs to Be Extracted, Under Certain Conditions, From Living Patients--Is a Radical Change Only at the Conceptual Level. But It Would Expand the Pools of Eligible Organ Donors.

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.