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- Should Gene-Edited Mice Be Released to Control Lyme Disease?
Posted on July 25, 2018
Hastings Center research scholar Carolyn P. Neuhaus participated in a panel discussion on Martha’s Vineyard on July 12 to discuss a proposal to release genetically modified mice to curb the... - What is Normal? Why Medicine Should Reconsider the Concept
Posted on July 6, 2018
The idea that there’s a normal human body has traditionally been “the glue that renders any given modern concept of health, illness, or disease coherent,” writes Joel Michael Reynolds, the... - National Workshop on Science Communication Features Hastings Scholar
Posted on June 27, 2018
What are the right and wrong ways to speak about disability? Joel Michael Reynolds The Hastings Center’s Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities, was an invited speaker... - Scanning the Landscape of Physician-Assisted Death
Posted on June 27, 2018
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine released Physician- Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape, proceedings from a two-day workshop convened by the National Academies in February to take a... - Daniel Callahan Pays Tribute to Two Hastings Center Fellows
Posted on June 21, 2018
Two distinguished bioethics scholars and Fellows of The Hastings Center died recently: H. Tristram Englehardt Jr. and Baruch Brody. They were among the early leaders of the new field of... - Hastings President Calls Attention to Public Engagement in Setting Science Policy
Posted on June 14, 2018
Genomics, new forms of assisted reproduction, neuroscience—these and other technologies give us transformative powers that we are just starting to realize. Nearly every report or commission that seeks to inform...
