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Central to understanding ethics is grasping that being good is a way of being happy -- not in the superficial social sense of being rich or famous, but in a deep sense of experiencing integrity, or flourishing as a human being. The post Why Be Ethical? It’s Good for Us appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Case Narrative Amy is a 52-year-old with a medical history of heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, depression, and anxiety. She voluntarily goes to the emergency department because she... The post Should a DNR Be Honored for Patient with Suicidal Thoughts? appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been obsessed for decades with reducing or eliminating childhood vaccinations. He has long seen them as very dangerous,... The post The Bizarre and Dangerous Concept of Over-Vaccination appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Whatever disagreements neuroethicists have, they all presuppose the annoying multiplicity of brains that somehow generate minds. Not so in Vince Galligan’s new streaming series Pluribus. A coded message from deep... The post The Benign Zombies of Pluribus appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

It goes without saying that gun violence is a major problem in the U.S. Yet, discussing approaches to reducing gun violence often devolves into contentious disagreements. We believe that ethical frameworks used in medical ethics could be helpful in finding a way forward. The post Finding Common Ground to Reduce Gun Violence appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Bioethics is on the big screen with two canonical bioethical narratives: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg. The post The Multiplicity of Monsters: Frankenstein, Nuremberg, and Us appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

At this unprecedented time for medical research, there is an urgent need for protocols to prepare for and communicate the termination of a study to all research stakeholders. The post Your Study is Terminated: Researchers Need to Prepare Participants appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

We offer these lessons from our investigations into climate bioethics with Latin American and Caribbean bioethics scholars. The post What COP30 Can Learn from Climate Bioethics appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature. The post What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Regardless of one’s position on the legalization of assisted dying, how these deaths are documented on death certificates raises important ethical questions about vital statistics and individual privacy. The post Legal Medical Aid in Dying: The Paradox of Privacy appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .