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- 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... - New Hastings Fellows Elected
Posted on January 30, 2019
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 18 new Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public...
