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- Hastings Center President Calls for “Moral Leadership” to Improve End-of-Life Care
Posted on May 18, 2018
Are you, as caregivers in a twenty-first century health system, helping your patients and families to make fully informed decisions about the treatments they want and that are likely to... - New Hastings Center Fellows Elected
Posted on May 16, 2018
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 11 new Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment, whose work has informed scholarship and/or... - What Does It Mean to be a Good Citizen in an Aging Society?
Posted on May 7, 2018
That question was the focus of “Long Term Care in New York City, circa 2030,” a panel discussion hosted by the New York City Bar Association on May 3 that included... - Hastings Scholar and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist on Conscientious Objection
Posted on April 23, 2018
When is it acceptable for health care professionals to refuse to provide a treatment because it violates their conscience? The implications of recent developments in federal and state governments that... - Five Physicians Honored for Exemplary Care of Patients Nearing the End of Life
Posted on April 13, 2018
A physician who founded a pediatric palliative care program and another who developed a nationally recognized curriculum to improve communication between doctors and patients with advanced kidney disease are among... - Defining Death: Public Event Explores the Legacy of Brain Death and the Future of Organ Transplantation
Posted on April 10, 2018
Defining Death: Organ Transplantation and the 50-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death, the 2018 Harvard Medical School’s Annual Bioethics Conference, took place from April 11 to 13...
