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  A Washington Post article on the ethics of the recent ruling on testosterone levels in women’s sports quotes Hastings Center President Emeritus Thomas Murray and cites his book: “Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter — And How Doping Undermines Them.”  Says Murray about the case: “You’re balancing considerations that just don’t afford an easy solution.””

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  Hastings President Emeritus on Caster Semenya, Testosterone, and Fairness in Sports

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  Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon and the board of directors are saddened by the passing of Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., a member of the Center’s board of directors from 1985 to 2004; he was board chair for the last six years of his term. He died peacefully at home in Maine on April 24. Dr.… Read more

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  Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., Remembered

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• Federal Right to Try: Where Is It Going? Kelly Folkers, Carolyn Chapman, and Barbara Redman Many patients with terminal or serious illness who have exhausted their treatment options want access to experimental therapies they hope will help them. A federal right-to-try law, enacted in May 2018, permits physicians to treat patients with investigational medical products… Read more

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  PRESS RELEASE 4-25-2019: New in the Hastings Center Report, March-April 2019

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• BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

  It was unethical for a fertility doctor to use his own sperm to inseminate patients without their consent. But what are the legal harms to the women? To their children?

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  What’s Wrong with a Fertility Doctor Using His Own Sperm?

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  The new indie movie William explores the question, What would it be like if a Neanderthal were born and raised in a modern, industrialized society today?

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  Rationality as Understood by a Neanderthal

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  Getting the facts about vaccines right is not the most important part of the effort to sway the minds of those unconvinced, write Hastings Center research scholars Gregory E. Kaebnick and Michael Gusmano in Slate.   Convincing people to vaccinate their children requires engaging with them about their values.

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  Hastings Scholars: To Convince Parents to Vaccinate Their Children, Engage With Them About Their Values

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• Founded in 1969, The Hastings Center was important in establishing the field of bioethics.  It is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of research scholars from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, law, political science, and education. Our team includes other staff members with expertise in communications, publishing, and finance and a worldwide network of elected Fellows, an active board,… Read more

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• BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

  Should an elderly person in decent health but “tired of life” be able to die with a physician’s assistance? The Netherlands is grappling with this question.

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  Should Feeling Tired of Life Be Grounds for Euthanasia?

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• HASTINGS CENTER NEWS

  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 welcome technologies that do that? How should the values that give our lives meaning shape how, and whether, we use biomedical “enhancements”? These are among… Read more

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  What’s Actually Wrong with Sports Doping?

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• BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

  It is a truism that good ethics begins with good facts. Here are some of the facts about the ethics and politics of heritable human genome editing from 2015 to 2019.

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  Why Avoid the “M-Word” in Human Genome Editing?

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