Hastings Center Report: September–October 2026

The Hastings Center

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

The Clinician's Ethical Voice

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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