Susan Gilbert
Director of Communications
Susan Gilbert is the director of communications of The Hastings Center and editor of Hastings Bioethics Forum. Before joining The Hastings Center in 2007, she was an editorial consultant and a freelance writer specializing in health and medicine. She was a frequent contributor to The New York Times science section and a consultant to Harvard Health Publications. Earlier, she was an editor of The New York Times Good Health Magazine and Science Digest. Gilbert is the author of A Field Guide to Boys and Girls (HarperCollins, 2000) and coauthor of The Harvard Medical School Guide to Optimal Memory (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Children’s Hospital Guide to Your Child’s Health and Development (Perseus 2001). Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Scientific American, Redbook, Parenting, and Forbes. She has received two awards from the American Medical Writers Association.
Posts by Susan Gilbert
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Fresh Territory for Bioethics: Silicon Valley
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayBiomedical researchers are increasingly looking to Silicon Valley for access to human subjects, and Silicon Valley is looking to biomedical researchers for new ventures. These relationships could be a boon to medicine, but they also raise questions about how well-informed the consent process is and h...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Why College Students Use Cognitive Enhancers: It’s Not Only about Grades
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAs the school year winds down, it’s safe to assume that many college students used stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall to get through finals. While the students may have been motivated to improve their odds of getting good grades, a new study suggests that students’ reasons for taking sti...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Federal Recommendations on Use of Cognitive Enhancers
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe idea that we can get better grades at school and advance our careers by taking drugs that improve concentration and other brain functions is at once controversial and tempting. Is this cheating, or is it in the same realm as drinking coffee to increase alertness? Bioethicists, medical professiona...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Responding to Ebola: Selected Commentaries on Key Ethical Questions
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest and deadliest on record, and the crisis is evolving rapidly. More than 2,200 people have been infected in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria, and more than half have died. The response to the epidemic has raised ethical questions about the fa...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
More French Paradoxes
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New Bioethics Education Resources: Read about Them Here; Find Them When the Government Shutdown Is Over
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues recently announced its release of new, free materials for bioethics education. The educational materials were available for download on the commission’s website, bioethics.gov, until 12:01 AM on October 1, when the government shut d...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Support for Returning Results of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Research
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThis used to be a purely academic question: If you could know, years before you had symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, that you were likely to develop it–and there was no treatment or cure–would you want this information? Now it is a real dilemma because there are brain scans and other biomark...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
What if the Patient is Your Mother?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe problems with end-of-life care are clear enough. Patients and their families/significant others still have trouble talking with one another and their doctors about how they would and would not want to spend their final days. All too often, for many reasons, patients’ wishes are not honored. Ove...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Why Hospitals Should Go Greener
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When Cutting Mental Health Spending Means Passing the Buck
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIt’s no secret that community-based mental health and substance use treatment services are underfunded, but less widely known is the extent of the problem. Since 2009, the height of the Great Recession, state funding for these services has fallen by $4.35 billion. And yet the prevalence of behavio...Read the Post
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