Lawrence O. Gostin
JD
Posts by Lawrence O. Gostin
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Public Health Ethics and Law
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Bloomberg’s Health Legacy: What Inflames Consumer Passions in the Food Wars?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAfter the Hastings Center Report published my essay on Mayor Bloomberg’s health legacy — with its key ideas spread through the popular media (here and here) — vitriolic messages streamed into my inbox. The messages were not intellectual arguments supporting free enterprise or limited governme...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDS
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe salience of the Constitution’s spending clause to the public’s health is not often appreciated–empowering the federal government to “provide for the common Defense and general Welfare.” But the power to spend–along with the equally vital power to tax–provides government with authori...Read the Post
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Hastings Conversations: Our Series
Read the PostIn 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 injustice in our health care system. Below are all the events presented to date, with links to recordings...Read the PostVaccine Mandates and Passports: Are They Legal and Ethical?
Read the PostHASTINGS CONVERSATIONS: A SERIES Although roughly 60% of adults in the United States have had at least one Covid vaccine shot, many Americans remain reluctant, or outright opposed, to getting vaccinated. This hesitancy poses a major hurdle to achieving herd immunity. Therefore, some experts reco...Read the PostEthical Challenges in the Middle Tier of Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation: Guidance for Organizational Decision-Making
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Ethics Guidance and Resources on Covid-19
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Covid-19 Crisis Triage—Optimizing Health Outcomes and Disability Rights
Read the PostHastings Center NewsWriting in the New England Journal of Medicine, Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon and two Hastings Center fellows address concerns that crisis triage protocols aimed at allocating scarce health care resources to save the most lives could be biased against people with disabilities. Their arti...Read the Post - HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
Scarcity in the Covid-19 Pandemic
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America’s Bioethicists and Health Care Leaders: Government Must Use Federal Powers To Fight COVID-19
Read the PostHastings Center NewsNearly 1,400 of the nation’s most prominent bioethicists and health leaders signed an urgent letter to Congress and the White House, imploring the U.S. government to immediately use its federal power and funds to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a matter of moral imperative. The petition was developed by Mildred Solomon, president of The Hastings Center, and Lawrence Gostin, a Hastings Fellow and director of the O’Neill Center for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.Read the Post - HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
Responding to COVID-19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically
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Ethics Guidance and Resources on Covid-19
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