Hastings Center for Bioethics News
- Covid-19 Crisis Triage—Optimizing Health Outcomes and Disability Rights
Posted on May 20, 2020
- We Must Test, and Do It Differently, to Re-open the Nation
Posted on April 23, 2020
- Physicians Honored for Outstanding Care of Patients Near the End of Life
Posted on April 23, 2020
- In the Media: The Hastings Center Responds to Covid-19
Posted on March 24, 2020
Hastings Center research scholars have been talking with the press and writing on ethical issues raised by the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a selected roundup. Check back for updates. - America’s Bioethicists and Health Care Leaders: Government Must Use Federal Powers To Fight COVID-19
Posted on March 24, 2020
Nearly 1,400 of the nation’s most prominent bioethicists and health leaders signed an urgent letter to Congress and the White House, imploring the U.S. government to immediately use its federal power and funds to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a matter of moral imperative. The petition was developed by Mildred Solomon, president of The Hastings Center, and Lawrence Gostin, a Hastings Fellow and director of the O’Neill Center for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. - The Hastings Center Produces Guidance for Ethical Practice in Responding to COVID-19
Posted on March 18, 2020
The Hastings Center has developed a resource for health care institutions and institutional ethics services to support leadership and practice during the novel coronavirus public health emergency and in the care of patients with COVID-19.The Hastings Center convened an expert advisory group to meet the need for a practical resource to support institutional preparedness and supplement public health and clinical practice guidance on COVID-19.
