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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
  
Hastings Cent. Rep.

Edited by
  
Gregory Kaebnick

Language
  
English

Publication history
  
1971-present

Discipline
  
Bioethics, philosophy, ethics, humanities, health policy, health law, religious studies

Publisher
  
Wiley-Blackwell (United States)

The Hastings Center Report is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of bioethics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Hastings Center (Garrison, New York). The editor-in-chief is Gregory Kaebnick. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.731, ranking it 8th out of 51 journals in the category "Ethics".

The journal focuses on legal, moral, and social issues in medicine and the life sciences. It publishes a variety of article types that may take many forms:

  • articles that explore philosophical and ethical issues in medicine, health care, technology, medical research, the use of human subjects in research, and the environment
  • reports or reviews of empirical studies that implicate relevant philosophical and ethical questions
  • short, provocative essays; case studies (which may be accompanied by commentary on the case)
  • personal narratives about receiving or providing health care
  • and brief commentary on relevant events in the news

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