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- Hastings Center Cofounder Willard Gaylin (1925-2022)
Posted on January 5, 2023
Willard Gaylin, an acclaimed psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a pioneering scholar in bioethics who co-founded The Hastings Center, died on December 30. He was 97. - Introducing Clinical Ethics Case Studies in Hastings Bioethics Forum
Posted on November 21, 2022
Each year, tens of thousands of clinical ethics case consultations are performed in hospitals around the country. These consultations respond to fraught, complex questions from patients, families, health care professionals,... - Health Care Professionals’ Burnout During Covid
Posted on November 11, 2022
Frontline physicians who cared for Covid-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in New York City and New Orleans reported multiple factors that contributed to their occupational stress... - A Housing Lens for Policy Ideas on Aging
Posted on October 19, 2022
Most Americans want to age in place, but that goal relies on housing affordability, accessibility, and proximity to services. A new project, led by Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger,... - Neuroscience and Society Series to Launch
Posted on October 12, 2022
The Hastings Center Report will launch a series of open-access articles and essays on the ethical, legal, and social implications of new findings in neuroscience. The series, supported by the... - Hiland Honored for Chatbot Warning
Posted on October 11, 2022
Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, smartphone applications, and other “telemental” services are promoted as innovative solutions to skyrocketing rates of depression, anxiety, and mental distress. But they pose an array of harms, writes Emma Bedor Hiland in “How Smart Tech Tried to Solve the Mental Health Crisis and Only Made It Worse,” the winner of the 2022 David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society.
