A nonprofit organization dedicated to public service and education in the field of biomedical ethics. Its staff conducts research in the field, provides assistance to educators, students, ethics committee members, physicians, attorneys, researchers, and journalists. It publishes, bimonthly, the Hastings Center Report and IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research. Topics on which it has published include surrogate parenting, AIDS issues, allocation of health care, physician-assisted suicide, embryo research, genetic technologies, reproductive technologies, environmental ethics, chronic illness and long term care, doctor-patient relationships, organ transplantation, and methodology in bioethics.