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    Why a Bioethics Briefing Book?

    I arrived at The Hastings Center for my first tour of duty in the fall of 1979, and it did not take long to realize that the Center was working...

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    The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline

    “Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though...

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    From Assisted Reproduction to Stem Cells: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book

    Project launched in January 2008 Principal Investigator: Mary Crowley Funders: The Greenwall Foundation and The Lounsbery Foundation Purpose To provide campaigns, journalists, and policymakers with a ready reference on about three dozen issues in...

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    PRESS RELEASE: 10.12.10 Joseph J. Fins Elected to Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

    Joseph J. Fins, M.D., chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and a Hastings Center board member, was elected to the Institute...

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    Enhancing Humans

    Framing the Issue When Guttenberg invented the printing press, making the written word accessible to the masses, he could have hardly envisioned today’s world where the entirety of human knowledge...

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    Pandemics: The Ethics of Mandatory and Voluntary Interventions

    [This chapter is adapted from “Influenza Pandemic,” by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, in From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for...

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    Ethics, Genetics, and the Future of Sport: The Implications of Genetic Modification and Genetic Selection

    Project launched in June 2005 Principal Investigator: Thomas H. Murray Funder: United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Purpose The project had four basic aims: Develop a realistic assessment of the likely time horizon...

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    Clinical Trials

    Framing the Issue Clinical research with human participants utilizes a systematic approach to help understand human health and illness in order to find safe and effective ways to prevent, diagnose,...

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