Hastings Center News
- Winning Essay: “Moral Bioenhancement as Potential Means of Oppression”
Posted on October 6, 2021
Faced with existential threats such as climate change, some scholars argue that “moral bioenhancements,” including psychotropics drugs and other interventions, are needed to improve our collective moral capacity to do... - Crisis Standards of Care: New in the Hastings Center Report
Posted on September 22, 2021
As Covid spreads and leaves intensive care units at or near capacity in several states, some regions have approved crisis standards of care, which involve health care rationing. The latest... - Caste Author Isabel Wilkerson to Keynote National Forum, “Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities.”
Posted on September 15, 2021
The Hastings Center and the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Health Justice Announce Two-Day Summit on Health Equity. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 15 — The Hastings Center, a global... - New Resource Counters Misinformation on Human Genomics
Posted on September 7, 2021
“Easily accessible information for funders, researchers, policymakers, journalists, industry, and patient groups” — featured in Nature Genetics New research on the genomic influences on traits such as intelligence, household income,... - New Resource: The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
Posted on August 20, 2021
From AIDS to Covid-19, how have pandemics and epidemics shaped health policy and bedside decision-making? How have major medical societies’ statements on discrimination and racial justice evolved over the decades?... - Hastings Center Launches Bioethics Timeline
Posted on August 20, 2021
From AIDS to Covid-19, how have pandemics and epidemics shaped health policy and bedside decision-making? How have major medical societies’ statements on discrimination and racial justice evolved over the decades?...