Ellen K. Feder
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Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayTwo weeks ago, Time magazine reported on our ongoing efforts to protect the rights of pregnant women offered dexamethasone, a risky Class C steroid aimed at female fetuses that may have a form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). It appears many women and children exposed to dexamethasone through...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Bad Vibrations
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn “The Rhetoric of Dehumanization: An Analysis of Medical Reports of the Tuskegee Syphilis Project,” Martha Solomon brilliantly demonstrates how the project’s researchers hid their work in plain sight. Specifically, Solomon used the published reports of the Tuskegee syphilis study – which in...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Prenatal Dex: Update and Omnibus Reply
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Fetal Cosmetology
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The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
Read the PostPage“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though it has roots tracing back decades or generations earlier, modern bioethics is widely held to have aris...Read the Post - Our Team
Michele Goodwin
Read the PostOur TeamMichele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) and Founding Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highe...Read the Post - Page
Transcript | Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity
Read the PostPageA HASTINGS CENTER CONVERSATION WITH RHEA BOYD, MAYA GOLDENBERG, AND MILDRED SOLOMON The Hastings Center hosted “Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity,” an online discussion of the ethical issues related to vaccine access and hesitancy in the United State...Read the Post - Page
Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community
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Law Enforcement and Genetic Data
Read the PostFrom Bioethics BriefingsFraming the Issue DNA has been a powerful crime-solving tool for decades, but law enforcement’s ability to harness it for investigative purposes has grown immensely in recent years. This is due primarily to the massive amount of genetic data now housed in government-run, public, and private databas...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Hastings Center Welcomes 14 New Fellows
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Transcript: New Ethical Questions and 21st Century Genomics
Read the PostPageThe Hastings Center hosted a special virtual discussion on “New Ethical Questions and 21st Century Genomics” on Thursday, June 4. After the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation, the Nuremburg Code of the 1940’s established the importance of voluntary, informed consent by research partici...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
On Being an Elder in a Pandemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayDo the elderly have special obligations during a pandemic, that is, something more than the duty we all have for hand washing, social distancing, and so on? I believe the answer is, yes, and foremost among these is an obligation for parsimonious use of newly scarce and expensive health care resources.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
We Should Be Concerned About Athletes Having to ‘Dope Down’
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