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- Could Genetic Testing for Educational Attainment Cause Harm? Hastings Researcher Begins First-Ever Study to Find Out
Posted on January 17, 2020
Hastings Center postdoctoral researcher Lucas J. Matthews is undertaking the first-ever study to examine the potential harms of telling students about their genetic propensity for educational attainment. - Expert in Artificial Intelligence Named Hastings Center Senior Advisor
Posted on January 8, 2020
- Helping Seriously Ill Patients Access “Last Resort” Medicines
Posted on December 20, 2019
The Compassionate Use Advisory Committee, headed by Hastings Center Fellow Arthur Caplan, of NYU Langone, received the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration’s Innovation Award. The committee was recognized for transforming how expanded access requests, also known as compassionate use requests, are granted by drug developers. - Hastings Center, Co-Founder Honored for Ethics Leadership
Posted on December 13, 2019
The Hastings Center and its late co-founder Dan Callahan were honored for their pioneering work in pursuit of a just society by the Collaborative for Palliative Care at its annual conference on Wednesday, December 12th, at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. - In Search of Authentic Public Engagement
Posted on November 21, 2019
Hastings Center research scholar Karen Maschke questioned recent calls in the ethics world for public engagement, enhanced governance, and greater transparency regarding technological innovation. “Making the calls is easy,” Maschke said, but taking action means disrupting existing centers of power, and requires hearing a multitude of challenges to the underpinnings of innovation. She spoke at a panel entitled “50 Years of Bioethics – Reflections from The Hastings Center” at a conference in Boston. - In Search of Authentic Public Engagement
Posted on November 21, 2019
Hastings Center research scholar Karen Maschke questioned recent calls in the ethics world for public engagement, enhanced governance, and greater transparency regarding technological innovation. “Making the calls is easy,” Maschke said, but taking action means disrupting existing centers of power, and requires hearing a multitude of challenges to the underpinnings of innovation. She spoke at a panel entitled “50 Years of Bioethics – Reflections from The Hastings Center” at the annual Prim*r conference in Boston this week. Primr is a professional organization focused on research ethics.
