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He died when he got the wrong lungs. It wasn't the only organ error in SC that day.
Few things in medicine are considered as precious as a solid organ donation, especially from someone who has died. To mix up the match between donor a...
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As communities across the world work to navigate the pandemic, The Hastings Center has assembled ethics resources for responding to novel coronavirus Covid-19. We are updating this hub throughout the crisis. The Hastings Center developed a resource for health care institutions and ethics services to support leadership and practice during the emergency: Ethical Framework for… Read more
COVID-19 RESOURCES
Writing in Stat News, Hastings Center research scholar Josephine Johnston responded to a new report from an international committee tasked with defining a pathway to using gene editing to change human cells in ways that can be passed down to future generations.
IN THE MEDIA
Disparate health outcomes for people of color and the poor have been recognized for decades, but the pandemic has made them inescapably visible. Visible too is the racism that accounts for the cruelty witnessed as millions watched George Floyd’s murder. We know the social causes of these inequities and the policies that could address them.… Read more
SPECIAL EVENT SERIES
Years before George Floyd begged to be released from under the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, Barbara Dawson, a 57-year-old Black woman, died begging a police officer, John Tadlock, not to remove her oxygen mask. Her death occurred right outside the Calhoun Liberty Hospital in Blountstown, Florida, shortly before Christmas in 2015.
BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY
Abstract: Over time, ethical judgments evolve, but so do the phenomena they are applied to. For example, plagiarism is a modern concept. Before the early eighteenth century, works did not generally have references or acknowledgments, and ideas were freely exchanged. As writing became an occupation, copying others’ words became “unethical.” As cut and paste, music… Read more
HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
As multiple Covid vaccine candidates enter clinical trials and hopefully move closer to approval, one important unanswered question is how to compensate the rare cases of serious vaccine harm.
Physicians have been vocal in condemning the anti-lockdown protests while endorsing and even participating in the Black Lives Matter protests. This has led to criticism of the medical community for being inconsistent and hypocritical. What does an ethical analysis reveal?
Covid isn’t merely overshadowing the drug overdose crisis—it’s directly worsening it.
Hastings Center research scholars have been talking with the press and writing on ethical issues raised by the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a selected roundup. Check back for updates.
HASTINGS CENTER NEWS
While school districts around the country are planning whether and how to hold in-person classes in September, “society’s commitment to children has gone largely unmentioned,” write Hastings Center research scholars Carolyn P. Neuhaus and Josephine Johnston in The Hill.
In many ways, black bioethics can be explained very simply as the exploration and interrogation of any event, ideal, technological advancement, person, or institution that directly or indirectly affects the health or well-being of black (loosely defined) individuals or the black population. Black bioethics is taking what we do in bioethics and specifically applying it to black people. But in other ways black bioethics is more than this; it is a rebellion against bioethics.
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