The ''Hastings Center Report'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

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bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, m ...

. It is published by

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on behalf of the

Hastings Center The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute and think tank based in Garrison, New York. It was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy i ...

(

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). The

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is Gregory Kaebnick. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 4.298. In 2018, it ranked it 5th out of 16 journals in the category "Medical Ethics". The journal focuses on legal, moral, and social issues in

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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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* {{Official website, http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Default.aspx Bioethics journals Publications established in 1971 Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Bimonthly journals English-language journals 1971 establishments in New York (state)

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