The Hastings Center for Bioethics

Hastings Center senior scholar Erik Parens will be giving a lecture at Smith College on “Binocularity”: A Tool for Comprehending Persons.

Are ethicists asleep at the wheel in protecting planetary health? Global warming is intertwined with persistent problems of social justice, systemic racism, the U.S. history of colonial oppression, and the dominance of capitalist consumer norms over health and health care. Why are these bioethical injustices? Why are these issues still not a central concern for many?...

The National Academies will convene a workshop to explore the in vitro derivation of human gametes (eggs and sperm) from embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells, and its potential impact on research and reproductive medicine with Joel Michael Reynolds, Hastings senior advisor and fellow.

Research on the genetic contributions to human social and behavioral characteristics, or phenotypes, including risk-taking, income, and educational attainment, is increasing. And it is both potentially beneficial and deeply controversial, given the long history of attempts to use claims about genetic differences to advance unjust social policies and ongoing concern about their misuse.  What are...

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic demanded remarkable creativity, innovation, and change from clinicians. How can we leverage the insights and lessons learned from working during COVID-19 to transform healthcare work going forward? And how can we create meaningful change in a broken American healthcare system? This webinar featured insights from two studies of healthcare work...

Genomic research has fueled hopes that genetic findings will lead the way to precisionmedicine. But whether patients seek and use genetic information will depend on howthey understand the link between genetics and health. This conference will addressthe psychological processes involved in seeking explanations and how they apply tounderstanding the causal role of genetics. Speakers will...

Hastings Center Research Associate Danielle Pacia will be giving a presentation on "Individualized genetic therapies as a treatment-research hybrids" at the University of Zurich's ITINERARE Ethics Conference, in Zurich, Switzerland. University of Zurich https://www.itinerare.uzh.ch/en/ITINERARE-Ethics-Conference.html

Hastings Center president Vardit Ravitsky, will present with a panel at the 2023 Polygenic Screening Embryo Conference.

At the annual meeting of the National Academy of Medicine, Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will speak with colleagues about Maternal & Child Health and Human Development.Topic: Genetics/AI/Big Data: Impact on Maternal and Child HealthSpeakers: Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital; Melissa Wong, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, Hastings Center; and Ron Wapner,...