How should we work to address climate change and other planetary threats to human health and survival? Our society is built on a global economy that is extractive and destructive, not only to the planet but to people and societies. What is needed to shift to an economic system that does not externalize harm, given...

Hastings Center president Mildred Z. Solomon will present "Ethical Issues We Have Faced over the Pandemic and Lessons Learned" at the Program for Biomedical Ethics seminar at the Yale School of Medicine Program for Biomedical Ethics.

Hastings Center Scholar, Nancy Berlinger will present, "Migration Humanities and Social Justice," at Otago Bioethics Center, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Mercer Gary a postdoctoral fellow at The Hastings Center will be giving a presentation on "Self-determined care or pernicious self-responsibilization? The Case of Telemedicineat for the Association for Feminist and Social Theory.

Josephine Johnston, Director of Research at The Hastings Center, and Dr. Insoo Hyun, Director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science in Boston will present, “Chimeras (But Don't Call Them Chimeras): An Introduction to the Ethics and Policy Debate” at the September 15 PRIM&R webinar.

Everyone ages in some "place," or a series of places. This event will explore the concept of place from the perspectives of housing research, affordable housing development and modification, and dementia-friendly community planning. Our aim is to connect humanistic concepts with socially engaged research and practice on planning and housing for aging societies, to support...

The webinar aims to provide participants with the ethical, regulatory, and psychosocial context to address the following questions: - What strategies should be used to minimize clinical trial investigators’ conflict of interest in recruiting patients into xenotransplant clinical trials? - How should potential participants be notified about the option of participating in a xenotransplant clinic...

Nancy Berlinger, Ph.D., a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, will be speaking at the Champions of Wellness Virtual Summit 2022 on "What Do Physicians Want from Leadership?: Insights from a Qualitative Four-City Study of Systems Factors in Occupational Health and Wellbeing During COVID-19."

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Hastings Center senior advisor and fellow, will be speaking on “How I Became Disabled” at The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and The State University of New York at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies two-day symposium entitled, “Irreducible Subjects: Disability and Genomics in the Past, Present and Future."