Nancy Berlinger Email & Phone Number

Nancy Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969 and located in Garrison, New York. Berlinger’s research focuses on ethical challenges in health care work and on related areas of professional education and health policy in the U.S. and internationally. Her interests include treatment decision-making and care near the end of life; access to health care for undocumented immigrants and migrant workers; ethical issues in the management of chronic illnesses, including cancer; the ethics of workarounds and other improvised practices for managing problems of safety and harm in health care systems; and problems at the intersection of these issues. Berlinger directed the research project that produced a revised and expanded edition of The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life (Oxford, 2013) and is the first author of the new Guidelines. She is also the author of After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness (Johns Hopkins, 2005). Her research products are featured on two public websites of The Hastings Center:www.hastingscenterguidelines.org www.undocumentedpatients.org

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  Research Scholar

  The Hastings Center