June 7, 2021, was a bad day for science. That was the day Food and Drug Administration approved aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, even though a committee of its own selected experts recommended strongly against approval.

The Obama administration’s decision regarding Catholic institutions and coverage for reproductive health has stirred up a firestorm of claims that the policy restricts religious freedom. That’s true: the policy does restrict...

Justice and Water. Race in Bioethics. Reproductive Ethics. Global Health Justice. These were among the wide range of topics explored in The Hastings Center Summer Bioethics Program for Underrepresented Undergraduates,...

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Michelle Brown-Yazzie Michelle Brown-Yazzie is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and is of Salish & Kootenai and Oglala Lakota descent. She is of the Táchii’nii Clan and is...

Novmber 15, 2022 Transcription by machine — may contain errors Elizabeth Lanphier So thank you all for being here today. It’s my pleasure to welcome you to this inaugural session...

The chaos that enveloped the Covid-19 response and the loss of trust in experts has laid bare the need for a shift in communicating the moral questions that confront our...

Bioethics With Bigger Impact November 15, 2022 Event transcript Perspectives in Biology and Medicine The chaos that enveloped the Covid-19 response and the loss of trust in experts has laid...

In 2020, The Hastings Center produced two Hastings Conversations series, Reopening the Nation, in response to the Covid-19 epidemic, and Securing Health in a Troubled Time, in response to racial...

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Biographies are alphabetical by last name. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv Research Scholar, Director of Visiting Scholar Program, The Hastings Center Art Caplan, PhD Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of...