The Hastings Center invites all attendees of the 26th Annual ASBH Conference to a reception to meet colleagues and peers.

Hastings Center research scholar Virginia Brown will present "Mental Health Crisis Plans and Psychiatric Advance Directives: Creating a Collaboratively Designed How-To Guide for Autonomous Decision Making" at the Flash Presentation Session: Psychiatric Ethics.

Authors will present their paper, "Kidney Transplant Candidates’ Information Needs for Informed Decision-Making about Participating in a First-in-Human Pig Xenotransplant Clinical Trial" at the 26th Annual ASBH Conference. Authors are E.J. Gordon, K.J. Maschke (of The Hastings Center), J. Gacki-Smith, M. Matthews, K. Traboulsi, D. Manning, and M.K. Gusmano.

Hastings Center Project Manager Research Assistant Ian Stevens will present "An Exploratory Review of the 'Treatment Resistant' Phenomenon in Neuropsychiatric Disorders as a Normative Criterion for Surgical Intervention" as part of the Neuroethics Affinity Group at the 26th annual ASBH conference. 

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will present "Bioethics: A Path Forward" for the annual Thomas P. Duffy Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics, sponsored by the Program for Biomedical Ethics at the Yale School of Medicine  Reception: 4:30 – 5:30, Medical Historical Library Duffy Lecture: 5:30 – 7:00 PM, SHML Room 115 LOCATION: Harvey Cushing/John Hay...

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will be a keynote speaker for the FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) Symposium. What are the ethical issues surrounding genetic modification? How do we define – and regulate – the line between benefit and harm?  In what ways do these possibilities force us to make...

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will present a lecture entitled "Ethics at the Very Core of Research and Clinical Practice" at the Foundation for Reproductive Medicine Conference. See conference booklet.

In this webinar at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky and colleagues argue that war is a public health crisis that bioethics has dealt with in too limited a manner. They propose several principles for addressing war as a public health crisis and suggest ways in which these principles can...

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will participate in a roundtable discussion on Islamic medical tradition with Aasim Padela at the 10th International Bioethics, Multiculturalism, and Religion Workshop sponsored by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights.

Caribbean basin countries are experiencing some of the most destabilizing impacts of climate change—entire villages destroyed, increases in diseases and other health harms. These countries contributed little to global climate change and yet they must build resilience to survive, much less flourish.  What are the tradeoffs of adapting to warmer environments versus abandoning low-lying locales?...