The Hastings Center Report

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.