Hastings Center for Bioethics News
- Genomics Enters the Clinic: What Should Savvy Consumers Know?
Posted on May 6, 2019
Genetics is finally being integrated into the clinic: cancer patients are having their cancer’s genome sequenced, fertility patients are having their embryos tested, and parents are being offered sequencing of their newborn babies. - Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., Remembered
Posted on April 30, 2019
- What’s Actually Wrong with Sports Doping?
Posted on April 10, 2019
What’s actually wrong with doping—if all athletes had access to the same performance-enhancing drugs, wouldn’t that make competitions fair? If the purpose of sport is to maximize performance, shouldn’t we... - Is it Ethical to Genetically Edit Sports Animals?
Posted on March 12, 2019
Breeders have worked for centuries to produce animals, such as greyhounds or racehorses, with traits for peak sport performance. Today, gene editing technologies such as CRISPR could accomplish in one... - ‘Designer Babies’ (You Say That Like It’s a Bad Thing)
Posted on March 5, 2019
Advances in preimplantation genetic diagnosis, genetic testing, and genome editing have renewed discussion about the ethics of “designer babies,” or children selected or engineered to have certain preferred traits, like... - Should Patients Be Considered Consumers? Hastings Scholars Say, No.
Posted on March 4, 2019
There is broad support for building health care systems that are patient centered, seen as a means of improving health outcomes and as morally worthy in itself. But the concept...
