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What Does It Mean to Move Through the World with a Disability?
Read the PostHastings Center NewsThe answer to that question is not straightforward, as was made vivid in “Navigating: On Disability, Technology, and Experiencing the World,” a recent virtual event. It was the second in a series of events produced by The Hastings Center and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Award-Winning Essay: Technology Can’t Fix Algorithmic Injustice
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Quixote Reimagined: Magical Realism Meets the Opioid Epidemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayWhat is Don Quixote, Cervantes’ 17th-century Spanish “Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha,” doing in a 21st-century novel about America? He’s on a quest to wed his Beloved. And what does this obsession have to do with the present-day opioid epidemic? Salman Rushdie’s new novel Quichotte lin...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Yes, We’re Animals: Why We Should Face Up to This Reality Now
Read the PostHastings Center NewsIn an age of new biotechnologies, from gene editing to neural enhancement, is there a tension in the idea that humans have special value because they’re somehow different or exceptional in nature? Dwelling on the idea that there’s something extraordinary about being human – and ignoring our kinship with life on our planet – is becoming a problem, says Melanie Challenger, an award-winning British writer and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics who has been a visiting scholar at The Hastings Center in November.Read the Post - Hastings Center News
December 3–Belonging: On Disability, Technology, and Community
Read the PostHastings Center NewsOn December 3, The Hastings Center will present the first in a series of public events in New York City that will explore how people with disabilities are using—or resisting—technologies to promote their own flourishing. The series is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.Read the Post - Hastings Center News
National Endowment for the Humanities Supports New Hastings Center Project on Disability, Technology, and Flourishing
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Rationality as Understood by a Neanderthal
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Early-Career Scholar Essay Award
Read the PostHastings Center NewsArtificial intelligence, Crispr gene editing, and other powerful new technologies have profound implications for society. They will likely bring both potential benefits and safety concerns and have other ethical and social ramifications. How can we reap the benefits, while minimizing harms? What kind...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
What Dr. Seuss Saw at the Golden Years Clinic
Read the PostBioethics Forum Essay“Improving patient experience” has become the mantra of many health care facilities in a highly competitive and regulated environment. But just what is it about the patient experience that needs to be improved? Will better food and gift bags do the trick? Or are more basic changes required?Read the Post - Hastings Center News
What Can Frankenstein Teach Us About Living in the Genetics Age?
Read the PostHastings Center NewsJoin us to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein with a panel discussion that will explore the novel from the perspectives of bioethics, literary criticism, and science fiction. Speakers include Victor Lavalle, associate professor of writing at Columbia University and author o...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Documentary Series Premiere on Genetic Medicine Features Hastings Scholars
Read the PostHastings Center NewsHastings Center president Mildred Z. Solomon and director of research Josephine Johnston were featured speakers at the premiere screening of The Code, a series of three documentaries on the origins of genetic medicine and what its successes and failures mean for the future. The series was produced by...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Hastings Scholar on Public Radio’s “Science Friday”: “Frankenstein” at 200
Read the PostHastings Center NewsFrankenstein, published 200 years ago this month, asked what it means to be human. In the age of CRISPR and artificial intelligence, that question endures. On Public Radio International’s “Science Friday,” Hastings Center director of research Josephine Johnston participated in a dis...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayFor the first few years after my husband Howard died, I talked to him often. These were not ghostly, paranormal encounters; I was just thinking out loud about my life without him. Ten years later, these occasions happen less frequently, usually connected with an anniversary or a family event. In my i...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
In New Frankenstein Edition, Hastings Scholar Asks, What Do We Owe Our Creations?
Read the PostHastings Center NewsWhat do scientists and engineers owe to their creations? What responsibility do they bear for harms that their creations cause? How does being responsible for our creations change us? These are the central questions in an essay by Josephine Johnston, The Hastings Center’s director of research, in ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAn old woman desperately needs medical attention. Yet she fiercely refuses every offer of help from friends, neighbors, and the local doctor. No one will get past her door, she vows. Respecting her autonomy means leaving her alone, possibly to die. Intervening to save her means risking her wrath and ...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Playing God: From Frankenstein to Gene Editing
Read the PostHastings Center NewsWhat lessons does Frankenstein hold for us today, when powerful new technologies such as gene editing and artificial intelligence are bringing us closer than ever to playing God? That question was the focus of “Spawn of Frankenstein,” a public event that featured Josephine Johnston, dir...Read the Post