Hastings Center Report

Hastings Center Report  
Discipline Bioethics, philosophy, ethics, humanities, health policy, health law, religious studies
Language English
Edited by Gregory Kaebnick
Publication details
Publication history
 1971-present
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell (United States)
Frequency Bimonthly
1.345
Standard abbreviations
Hastings Cent. Rep.
Indexing
ISSN 0093-0334 (print)
1552-146X (web)
LCCN 2004-212569
JSTOR 00930334
OCLC no. 15622366
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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 2016 impact factor of 1.345, ranking it 7th out of 16 journals in the category "Medical Ethics".[1]

The journal focuses on legal, moral, and social issues in medicine and the life sciences.[2] It publishes a variety of article types that may take many forms:[3]

  • 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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Medical Ethics". 2016 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.
  2. ↑ About the Hastings Center Report – www.thehastingscenter.org
  3. ↑ Submission Guidelines – www.thehastingscenter.org
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