Hastings Center for Bioethics News
- Understanding How Aging Societies Think About Dementia
Posted on August 17, 2022
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded The Hastings Center a collaborative research grant for The Meanings of Dementia: Interpreting Cultural Narratives of Aging Societies. This project will produce... - Overcoming Ableism in Medical and Nursing Education
Posted on August 4, 2022
Equitable health care for all is a bioethical imperative. And discrimination against people with disabilities—ableism—stands in the way of fulfilling that imperative. A new Hastings Center project constitutes the first... - Climate Change Ethics Explained in New Primer
Posted on August 2, 2022
A new primer that frames the moral and policy issues around climate change calls it unlike any problem that humanity has ever faced. “No issue demands greater care in balancing... - If Not Now, Then When? Taking Disability Seriously in Bioethics
Posted on July 1, 2022
The impression of bioethicists as “dangerous” has been a theme in the disability movement for decades. Is it outdated? An article in the Hastings Center Report argues that ableism and... - Hastings Center Report Commentary Helps Catalyze Connecticut Action Against Unconsented Intimate Medical Exams
Posted on June 10, 2022
A national survey, described in an essay in the Hastings Center Report, found a widespread practice, often for medical student teaching purposes, of doing pelvic and rectal exams in unconscious... - Hastings Center Welcomes the 2022-2023 Sadler Scholars
Posted on June 9, 2022
The Hastings Center is pleased to welcome the 2022-2023 Sadler Scholars, a select group of nine doctoral students with research relevant to bioethics who are from racial and ethnic communities...
