Hastings Center Report September-October 2026
Perspective
Open Access Patient Narratives as Testimonies to Structural Inequity
Faith E. Fletcher
Essay
At Law
Free Speech, Professional Judgment, and Medical Standards after Chiles
Dov Fox
Artificial Intelligence and the Purposes of Public Health: A Critical Look at Technology
David R. Tillman, Karl Johnson
Article
Neuroscience & Society
Open Access Speech Restoration & Mental Surveillance as Conflicting Ethical Concerns in Neural Speech-Decoding Research
Narayan Sankaran, Winston Chiong
Other Voices
Neuroscience & Society
Open Access Two Kinds of Mental Privacy: What Speech Decoding Does and Does Not Threaten
Marcello Ienca
Open Access Promises but Also Perils: Why We Should Not Dismiss Mental Surveillance Risks in Neurotechnology Research
Andrea Lavazza
Article
Neuroscience & Society
Open Access Recognizing Brain Pioneering as Hard Work: Strategies for Making Research Participation More Meaningful
Erika Versalovic, Beatriz Mamede, Sara Goering, Eran Klein
Book Review
Pamela Mazzeo, Chris Feudtner
Letter to the Editor
Free Access The Trouble with “Cure” in Sickle Cell Gene Therapy
Yoram Unguru, Akshay Sharma, Liza-Marie Johnson
Free Access Shameka Poetry Thomas Replies
Free Access Refining Relational Potential: The Concept of Relational Salience
Aaron Wightman, Jennifer Kett, Georgina Campelia, Benjamin S. Wilfond
Free Access Tyler Tate, Jenny Clark Schiff, Karolina Grekov, and Akilah Burford Reply
Free Access Daniel Kim and Xiang Yu Reply
Free Access Pierce Randall Replies
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