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- Looking for the Psychosocial Effects of Genomic Test Results
Posted on February 27, 2018
For the last quarter century, researchers have been asking whether genetic test results might have negative psychosocial effects. Anxiety, depression, disrupted relationships, and heightened stigmatization have all been posited as... - National Academies Workshop on Aid-in-Dying Features Hastings Scholars
Posted on February 13, 2018
Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger and cofounder and President Emeritus Daniel Callahan participated in a major public workshop on February 12 and 13. “Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape and... - Hastings Scholar on Public Radio’s “Science Friday”: “Frankenstein” at 200
Posted on February 2, 2018
Frankenstein, published 200 years ago this month, asked what it means to be human. In the age of CRISPR and artificial intelligence, that question endures. On Public Radio International’s “Science... - Questions About Conscientious Objection in Health Care
Posted on January 24, 2018
In January the Department of Health and Human Services acted to increase enforcement of laws that permit doctors and other health care workers to refuse to provide services such as... - Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter and How Doping Undermines Them
Posted on January 8, 2018
In the wake of Olympic doping scandals and just before the Winter Games in Pyeongchang in February, a new book by Hastings Center President Emeritus Thomas Murray explores the use... - Hastings Center Scholar Addresses Implications of CDC Avoiding Seven Words
Posted on December 19, 2017
Vulnerable. Entitlement. Diversity. Transgender. Fetus. Evidence-based. Science-based. Last week, news outlets reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been advised to avoid using these seven words in...
