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New Project to Expand Research Hub on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Advances in Human Genomics

The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Columbia Division of Ethics will lead a five-year expansion of their hub for research on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI)...
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Bioethics Forum Essay
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Breaking Boundaries: Reframing Clinical Ethics Discussions of Health Care for Incarcerated Patients 

Clinical ethicists should engage with the injustices of mass incarceration in the United States.
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Disinformation, Trust, and the Role of AI: Highlights of Our Event

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky moderated a discussion with experts Reed Tuckson and Timothy Caulfield on disinformation, trust, and the role of AI, focusing on current and future threats to...
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Addressing Gene Therapy’s Ethical and Policy Challenges

New NIH-funded project will explore ethical and policy challenges raised by gene therapies.
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Bioethics Forum Essay
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Priced Out of Publishing in Bioethics Journals

After several decades of being a prolific bioethicist, I am no longer sure I can afford to pay the open-access fees to publish in the field.
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Hastings Center Recognizes Allen E. Buchanan and Bernard Lo with 2024 Bioethics Founders’ Award

Allen E. Buchanan, PhD, and Bernard Lo, MD, have been named recipients of the 2024 Bioethics Founders’ Award. The Bioethics Founders’ Award, given by The Hastings Center, recognizes individuals from...
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The Hastings Center Awarded $1.5 Million by PCORI to Study Organizational Trustworthiness and Community-Engaged Research

A research team at The Hastings Center has been approved for $1.5 million in funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study organizational trustworthiness as it relates to...
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Bioethics Forum Essay
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What Is Preventable About Obesity?

The suggestion that obesity is a preventable disease has been weighing heavily on my mind ever since I read a recent article in the Hastings Center Report. The article claims to focus on “ethical, policy, and public health concerns” related to anti-obesity medications, but there is a strong undercurrent of bias throughout. As an endocrinologist who specializes in medical weight management, my clinical experience informs my understanding that obesity is almost never entirely preventable, but bias against those with obesity certainly is.
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Events

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October 15, 2024, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

Bioethics: A Path Forward

Dec 4
December 4, 2024, 9:00 am - 9:00 am EST

Bioethics Must Address War as a Public Health Crisis

Dec 7
December 7, 2024, 8:30 am - 9:00 am EST

Ethics at the Very Core of Research and Clinical Practice

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The Hastings Center Report

The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences.

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Ethics & Human Research

Ethics & Human Research (formerly IRB: Ethics & Human Research) aims to foster critical analysis of issues in science and health care that have implications for human biomedical and behavioral research, including developments that bring new challenges to existing ethical, regulatory, and policy frameworks governing research with humans in the United States and elsewhere.

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Special Reports

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Facing Dementia: Clarifying End‐of‐Life Choices, Supporting Better Lives

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Time to Rebuild: Essays on Trust in Health Care and Science

Special Reports to the Hastings Center Report present the results of research projects. Reports may be single-authored or collections of essays prepared by members of project working groups, consensus documents, or lively conversations among those who reached differing moral conclusions about a project’s central questions.

Bioethics Briefings

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Bioethics Briefings contain overviews of issues of high public interest, such as abortion, racism and health equity, climate change, and medical aid-in-dying. The briefs, written by leading bioethicists, are nonpartisan, describing topics from a range of perspectives that are grounded in scientific facts.

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