A series of informal conversations between Hastings Center for Bioethics President Vardit Ravitsky and a Hastings Center fellow or other distinguished bioethicist about a timely topic.

Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, MA, is an associate professor of philosophy and disability studies at Georgetown University and School of Medicine and a Hastings Center Fellow. An internationally recognized expert on disability ethics, he launched The Journal of Philosophy of Disability in 2020 and is author or editor of four books—the latest is The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability—and two more in press. (See Joel’s website for more details.) His friends at The Hastings Center for Bioethics are proud that he began his distinguished career not long ago as a postdoc here.

Dorothy Roberts, JD, is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society. She is a Hastings Center Fellow who received a MacArthur “genius award” Fellowship last year. The MacArthur Foundation commended her for “exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them.” Roberts chatted with Vardit Ravitsky about the “trifecta of violations of reproductive justice” and what bioethicists and healthcare providers should do.

I. Glenn Cohen, JD, is the James A. Atwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law; Deputy Dean of Harvard Law School; and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics at Harvard. He is a Hastings Center Fellow who has worked with The Hastings Center on various projects.

Michele Goodwin, JD, LLM, SJD, is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown University and a Hastings Center Fellow. 

Arthur (Art) Derse, MD, JD, a Hastings Center fellow who is Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities; Julia and David Uihlein Chair in Medical Humanities; and Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine at the Medical Collect of Wisconsin.