The Hastings Center : Advances in health, science, and technology raise profound ethical questions. We work for solutions that promote well-being for all.

Advances in health, science, and technology raise profound ethical questions. We work for solutions that promote well-being for all.

Hastings Center News

New Guidance Released for Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation

New Guidance Released for Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation

Protecting Communities from COVID-19

Protecting Communities from COVID-19

Dr. Fauci on Public Trust in Science

Dr. Fauci on Public Trust in Science

Covid-19 Ethical Framework and Supplements

Covid-19 Ethical Framework and Supplements

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Bioethics Forum

Surprising Surge of Egg Freezing During the Pandemic Raises Ethical Questions

Surprising Surge of Egg Freezing During the Pandemic Raises Ethical Questions

Motivated Ignorance: A Challenge for Science Communication and Democracy

Motivated Ignorance: A Challenge for Science Communication and Democracy

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Bioethics Briefings

Law Enforcement and Genetic Data

Law Enforcement and Genetic Data

Genomics, Behavior, and Social Outcomes

Genomics, Behavior, and Social Outcomes

Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions

Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions

Public Health Ethics and Law

Public Health Ethics and Law

Aging

Aging

Disaster Planning and Public Health

Disaster Planning and Public Health

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Special Reports

special report
May-June 2020For “All of Us”? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge
Looking for the Psychosocial Impacts of Genomic Information
May-June 2019Looking for the Psychosocial Impacts of Genomic Information
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Events

February 9, 2021Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community

Duke Professor Patrick T. Smith and Hastings Center President Mildred Solomon will explore how thinking and insights afforded by Martin Luther King and the 20th-century civil rights movement might help redress today’s widespread suffering and health inequities.

Register here for the virtual event

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Hastings Center Journals

Hastings Center Report
OK, Boomer, MD: The Rights of Aging Physicians and the Health of Our Communities

OK, Boomer, MD: The Rights of Aging Physicians and the Health of Our Communities

Ethics & Human Research
Should Participants in Clinical Trials Be Able to Withdraw from Passive Follow-Up?

Should Participants in Clinical Trials Be Able to Withdraw from Passive Follow-Up?

Ethics & Human Research
The Ethics of Research That May Disadvantage Others

The Ethics of Research That May Disadvantage Others

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