Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon delivered the 2019 Wiese Lecture in Ethics and Medical Humanities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston on May 2. Her talk, titled “Responsible Science Amidst Civic Discord: Can Bioethics Help?” focused on the need for examining values and engaging...

This year, The Hastings Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Center was first located on the second floor of my house in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., with some overflow paperwork stored at the home of my neighborhood friend and cofounder, Willard Gaylin.