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- 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. - Yes, We’re Animals: Why We Should Face Up to This Reality Now
Posted on November 21, 2019
In an age of new biotechnologies, from gene editing to neural enhancement, is there a tension in the idea that humans have special value because they’re somehow different or exceptional in nature? Dwelling on the idea that there’s something extraordinary about being human – and ignoring our kinship with life on our planet – is becoming a problem, says Melanie Challenger, an award-winning British writer and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics who has been a visiting scholar at The Hastings Center in November. - What’s Next for an Aging America: Palliative Care Leaders Assess the Future
Posted on November 20, 2019
The Collaborative for Palliative Care, in partnership with The Hastings Center, University of Rochester Finger Lakes Geriatrics Education Center (FLGEC), and Calvary Hospital, will host its annual conference this December 11th at Iona College, New Rochelle, N.Y., titled The Next Generation of Palliative Care: Integrating Palliative and Social Ethics of Care.”
