Hastings Center Publishes Excellent Bioethics Briefing Book for 2009 White House and Congress

The Hastings Center is the oldest bioethics institution in the United States, and has done an enormous (and enviable) service by pulling together briefing essays on three dozen topics in bioethics that will face the US Congress and President in the coming years, including health care access, human enhancement, nanotechnology, synthetic biology and intellectual property reform, all issues near and dear to the cybernetic IEET heart.

Table of Contents

• Bioethics Matters: Introduction and Acknowledgments    Mary Crowley, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, The Hastings Center

• Why a Bioethics Briefing Book?  Thomas H. Murray, President, The Hastings Center
• Bioethics and Policy—A History  Daniel Callahan, Cofounder, The Hastings Center
• Why Bioethics Matters Today—A Journalist’s Perspective  Nancy Gibbs, Editor-at-Large, TIME

1. Abortion  Bonnie Steinbock
2. Assisted Reproduction  Adrienne Asch and Rebecca Marmor
3. Biobanks: DNA and Research  Karen J. Maschke
4. Brain Injury: The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States  Joseph J. Fins
5. Clinical Trials  Christine Grady
 
6. Cloning  Christopher Thomas Scott and Irving L. Weissman
7. Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research  Josephine Johnston
8. Conscience Clauses, Health Care Providers, and Parents  Nancy Berlinger
9. Disaster Planning and Public Health  Bruce Jennings
10. DNA and Law Enforcement  Karen J. Maschke
11. End of Life Care  Alan Meisel
12. Enhancing Humans  Mark S. Frankel and Christina J. Kapustij
13. Environment and Health  David B. Resnik and Christopher J. Portier
14. Family Caregiving  Carol Levine
 
15. Gene Patents  Robert Cook-Deegan
16. Genetic Testing and Screening  Nancy Press
17. Health Care Costs and Medical Technology  Daniel Callahan
18. Health Care Reform  Norman Daniels and Marc Roberts
19. Influenza Pandemic  Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel
20. Intellectual Property and Biomedicine  Josephine Johnston
21. Medical Error  Nancy Berlinger
22. Mental Health in Children and Adolescents  Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston
23. Multinational Research  Voo Teck Chuan, Jacqueline Chin, and Alastair V. Campbell
 
24. Nanotechnology  Evan S. Michelson, Ronald Sandler, and David Rejeski
25. Nature, Human Nature, and Biotechnology  Gregory E. Kaebnick
26. Neonatal Care  Alan R. Fleischman
27. Newborn Screening  Mary Ann Baily
28. Organ Transplantation  Arthur Caplan
29. Personalized Medicine and Genomics  Anne-Marie Laberge and Wylie Burke
30. Physician Assisted Death  Timothy E. Quill and Jane Greenlaw
31. Public Health  Lawrence O. Gostin
32. Quality Improvement Methods in Health Care  Mary Ann Baily
 
33. Sports Enhancement  Thomas H. Murray
34. Stem Cells  Insoo Hyun
35. Synthetic Biology  Michele S. Garfinkel, Drew Endy, Gerald L. Epstein, and Robert M. Friedman
36. Torture: The Bioethics Perspective  Steven H. Miles

• Appendix: Legislation
• Appendix: Campaign