Lawrence O. GostinJDConnect with Lawrence O. Gostin: Email Lawrence O. GostinPosts by Lawrence O. GostinFrom Bioethics BriefingsPublic Health Ethics and LawFraming the Issue The role of public health is to assure the conditions needed to promote and protect people’s health. These conditions include various economic, social, and environmental factors...Read Public Health Ethics and LawBioethics Forum EssayBloomberg’s Health Legacy: What Inflames Consumer Passions in the Food Wars?After 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...Read Bloomberg’s Health Legacy: What Inflames Consumer Passions in the Food Wars?Bioethics Forum EssayThe Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDSThe 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...Read The Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDSRelated Posts WebinarsBelow is a full list of recent webinars hosted by The Hastings Center: Hastings Conversation: Patient Harms and Professional Obligations after Dobbs Communicating Ethical Challenges in Crises: Bioethics with Bigger...Read Webinars Hastings Conversations: Our SeriesIn 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...Read Hastings Conversations: Our Series Vaccine Mandates and Passports: Are They Legal and Ethical?HASTINGS 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...Read Vaccine Mandates and Passports: Are They Legal and Ethical? Ethical Challenges in the Middle Tier of Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation: Guidance for Organizational Decision-MakingDownload PDF Nancy Berlinger, PhD; Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH; Tia Powell, MD; Aimee Milliken, RN, PhD, HEC-C; Parinda Khatri, PhD; Fatma Marouf, JD, MPH; Keisha Ray, PhD; Johanna Crane, PhD...Read Ethical Challenges in the Middle Tier of Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation: Guidance for Organizational Decision-MakingHastings Center NewsEthics Guidance and Resources on Covid-19As communities across the world work to navigate the pandemic, The Hastings Center has assembled ethics resources for responding to novel coronavirus Covid-19. We are updating this hub throughout the...Read Ethics Guidance and Resources on Covid-19Hastings Center NewsCovid-19 Crisis Triage—Optimizing Health Outcomes and Disability RightsRead Covid-19 Crisis Triage—Optimizing Health Outcomes and Disability RightsHASTINGS CENTER REPORTScarcity in the Covid-19 PandemicRead Scarcity in the Covid-19 PandemicHastings Center NewsAmerica’s Bioethicists and Health Care Leaders: Government Must Use Federal Powers To Fight COVID-19Nearly 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 America’s Bioethicists and Health Care Leaders: Government Must Use Federal Powers To Fight COVID-19HASTINGS CENTER REPORTResponding to COVID-19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and EthicallyLawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, and Sarah A. Wetter [This article appears in the Hastings Center Report, March-April 2020] Few novel or emerging infectious diseases have posed such vital...Read Responding to COVID-19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically
