Marion DanisRelated PostsEventAddressing Racism and Achieving Equity in Bioethics Programs: Reality and RecommendationsHastings Center Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will discuss addressing racism and achieving equity in bioethics programs with Yolonda Wilson, Marion Danis, and Sandra Lee at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference:...Read Addressing Racism and Achieving Equity in Bioethics Programs: Reality and Recommendations Inaugural Cohort of Trustees Emeriti AnnouncedMarch 1, 2023 – The Hastings Center’s Board of Directors announced the inaugural cohort of trustees emeriti, former directors whose service, expertise, leadership, and support have helped position Hastings as the world’s...Read Inaugural Cohort of Trustees Emeriti Announced New in Ethics & Human Research, September-October 2021 Issue: Pregnant Participants in ResearchPregnant people are often excluded from research without clear justification, even when there is little harm to the fetus in minimal‐risk research. In this issue of Ethics & Human Research,...Read New in Ethics & Human Research, September-October 2021 Issue: Pregnant Participants in Research The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline“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...Read The Hastings Center Bioethics TimelineBioethics Forum EssayCommitting to Fight RacismWe have reached a very sad, painful moment in the United States. It feels like a cascade of calamities, one compounding the next. An infectious disease pandemic that we cannot yet cure has precipitated an economic crisis. An episode of police brutality against a black man has added the name George Floyd to a long list of victims of unfair policing practices in black communities. Bioethicists have not been doing enough in our professional capacities to actively denounce or address the persistent problems of structural racism. We invite our fellow bioethics colleagues to join us in candid, uncomfortable conversations about what we can and should be doing differently.Read Committing to Fight RacismHastings Center NewsAddressing Structural Injustice: A Call to Action for BioethicsTremendous wealth beside abject poverty, a widening income gap, the vast disparity between the life prospects of a black child and a white child -- structural injustices are pervasive in our country and many places in the world. What does bioethics have to say about these problems? The Hastings Center has committed to intensifying it efforts to address structural injustices. Ideas for doing so emerged in a plenary session organized by Hastings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.Read Addressing Structural Injustice: A Call to Action for Bioethics ScheduleClick on a date to see its schedule.Read Schedule FacultyBiographies 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...Read Faculty Trustees EmeritiPresident Emeritus Thomas H. Murray Board Chairs Emeriti Harold EdgarJulius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, Emeritus – Columbia Law School, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Columbia Law School, Founding...Read Trustees Emeriti