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- New Hastings Center Fellows Elected
Posted on October 27, 2016
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of eight new Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment, whose work has informed scholarship and/or... - Leon R. Kass Named 2016 Beecher Award Recipient
Posted on October 26, 2016
Leon R. Kass has been named the recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2016 Henry Knowles Beecher Award. For more than four decades, Dr. Kass has been deeply engaged with ethical... - President Solomon Identifies Four Big Questions of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”
Posted on October 10, 2016
Advances in information technologies and artificial intelligence, biological sciences, and physical sciences are recognized as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, holding promise for bringing great benefits but also harms. Hastings Center... - Johnston Discusses Ethical Concerns about Human Gene Editing
Posted on September 9, 2016
Josephine Johnston, The Hastings Center’s director of research, discussed the science of human gene editing, the policy activity it has triggered, and the moral and ethical concerns that it raises... - Improving Patient Safety in the Operating Room
Posted on September 7, 2016
How can health care systems increase the effectiveness of patient safety checklists? Nancy Berlinger, a Hastings Center research scholar, and Elizabeth Dietz, a project manager and research assistant, examine this... - Nancy Berlinger Co-Authors Palliative Care Recommendations
Posted on August 10, 2016
Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger is an author of a new policy statement on palliative care issued by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. The statement makes recommendations on...
