The Hastings Center for Bioethics

Carlos and seven other migrant farm workers were brought into a western Canadian hospital emergency department following a gas leak at the mushroom farm where they worked. But carbon monoxide exposure wasn’t Carlos’s only problem that day. The emergency department had no language interpretation services to understand or respond when Carlos pointed to his head and complained o...

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, declares that humanity faces “a pivotal choi...

Last year, Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev beat the 50-meter freestyle world record at a speed trial in North Carolina and walked away with a million dollars. But very few people thought that he’d beaten a “real” record because he was doped to the gills.

The event was a pilot for the

Springtime 1976 in America: While the country was preparing for its 200th birthday celebrations, one of the most significant hospital culture shifts was happening in the New Jersey Supreme Court. Karen Ann Quinlan’s surrogate decision-makers – her parents – won the right to turn off the ventilator that had been keeping their comatose daughter alive.