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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
This year, The Hastings Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Center was first located on the second floor of my house in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., with some overflow paperwork stored at the home of my neighborhood friend and cofounder, Willard Gaylin. Neither of us had ever run an organization or raised money. I am a… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
The Hastings Center at 50: Looking Back and Ahead
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HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 18 new Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences research, and the environment. Robert Cook-Deegan, MD, is a professor in the School for… Read more
HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
New Hastings Fellows Elected
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HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
Twenty years ago, the passage of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act prompted vigorous debate in my bioethics classrooms; now, the issue barely generates a ripple. Instead, we focus on an issue my students’ generation will confront, as illustrated by an amendment to the ODDA introduced in the last Oregon legislative session that would have… Read more
HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
Medical Aid in Dying: Bioethics as Sideshow
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HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
On January 8, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the nation’s largest public health system would guarantee comprehensive health care for all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status. The new program, NYC Care, will serve 600,000 uninsured city residents, including an estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrants who are excluded from federally funded benefits… Read more
HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
New York City Initiative to Cover the Uninsured Reflects Hastings Research, Recommendations
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IN THE MEDIA
While wealth screenings have been used for decades for fundraising by universities and other nonprofits, Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger told the New York Times that they raised different concerns for hospitals. “Needing health care is different than choosing to go to college or going to the opera,” she said. “When you are sick, you need… Read more
IN THE MEDIA
Should Hospitals Ask Wealthy Patients to Donate?
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HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
From the start, I followed the case of Jahi McMath with great interest. In December 2013, she clearly fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for brain death. As a neurologist with a special interest in chronic brain death, I was not surprised that, after she was flown to New Jersey, where she became statutorily resurrected and was… Read more
HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
The Case of Jahi McMath: A Neurologist’s View
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HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
Three journalists received The Hastings Center Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Ethics and Reprogenetics. The awards were presented at an event in New York City on December 6 that celebrated the role of journalists in helping the public understand the science of heredity and the power of genetic and reproductive technologies. The keynote speaker… Read more
HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
The Hastings Center Celebrates Outstanding Journalists
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BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
I started writing this on my way back to New York from the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in Hong Kong November 27 to 29, where the breaking news of the alleged world’s first birth of genetically edited babies loomed large. The surprising news both reinforced and undercut the summit’s goal to… Read more
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Should We Edit the Human Germline? Is Consensus Possible or Even Desirable?
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HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
This special report is published in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the “Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death,” a landmark document that proposed a new way to define death, with implications that advanced the field of organ transplantation. This remarkable success notwithstanding,… Read more
HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
Brain Death at Fifty: Exploring Consensus, Controversy, and Contexts
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HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
The Hastings Center’s staff and board of directors are profoundly saddened by the passing on January 3 of their friend, colleague, and trustee, Richard Payne. A neurologist, Dr. Payne was also an international expert in palliative care and pain management and care near the end of life. He advanced pain relief for thousands of patients,… Read more
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Dr. Richard Payne Remembered
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Spotlight
Frankenstein in the Age of Gene Editing
Watch highlights from a public event at The Hastings Center that explored Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking 200-year-old novel from the perspectives of bioethics, literary criticism, and science fiction. Speakers included Victor Lavalle, an associate professor at Columbia University and author of Destroyer, a graphic novel adaptation of Frankenstein that incorporated contemporary issues of race, violence, and alienation; Charlotte Gordon, distinguished professor of the humanities at Endicott College and author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; and Hastings Center director of research Josephine Johnston, a contributor to Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds.