The Hastings Center for Bioethics
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The Hastings Center is a bioethics institute that addresses social and ethical issues in health care, science, and technology. thehastingscenter.org
🚨 NEW Clinical Ethics Case Study: A patient repeatedly swallows razor blades and returns to the ED. How should clinicians respond when trauma, mental illness, and social circumstances drive a medical crisis? 📖 https://bit.ly/4wCtgjr
💊⚖️ Science Will Not Save the Abortion Pill In a NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Chris ChoGlueck examines the upcoming Supreme Court case Louisiana v. FDA and what it could mean for access to abortion pills mailed to states with abortion bans. 📖: https://bit.ly/4fYYZpE
🎉 The Hastings Bioethics Forum is celebrating 20 years! In a new essay, Tom Chambers revisits a question for the AI era: Can AI create truly original scholarship? He even proposes a bioethics version of the Turing test. 🔗https://bit.ly/44Vlkh9 #Bioethics #AI #Research
🌍 Time is running out! Applications for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Bioethics Mentorship Program close August 3. 📅 Deadline: August 3 📖 Apply today: https://bit.ly/4g2yNK8
🎉 Welcome Leigh Morgan to our Board of Directors! As CEO of Imaginal Leadership Strategies and former chair of Fred Hutch Cancer Center, she brings extensive leadership and governance expertise to Hastings. 📖 More: https://bit.ly/4bRYNFJ
🧠 What ethical questions arise when scientists use brain organoids for biocomputing? HC Senior Researcher Insoo Hyun co-authored a NEW @nature.com article exploring the ethical challenges of this emerging field. 📖: https://go.nature.com/4wYwYDM
🧬During WWII, conscientious objectors volunteered to be intentionally infected with hepatitis to advance medical research. Their story raises timeless questions about altruism, ethics, and public health. 📖 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: https://bit.ly/4hs2w0b
🎉We are excited a new episode of Bioethics Chats is out NOW! Quill Kukla professor of philosophy @georgetownlaw.bsky.social chats with @varditravitsky.bsky.social about the book, global biopolitical crises, and why the world desperately needs bioethicists now. 🔗https://bit.ly/44HS2T2 #bioethics
🧬🤔NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay argues that media coverage of a preprint on embryo gene editing may make this controversial technology seem safer—and more inevitable—than the evidence supports. 📖 https://bit.ly/4hj6Wqe #Bioethics #GeneEditing #CRISPR
🏅💉 Should athletes be allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs? Hastings President Emeritus Thomas Murray joined @espn.com to discuss the ethics of the Enhanced Games. 🎥: https://bit.ly/4fgOBY9
🎉 Congrats to Hastings Center Fellow Holly Fernandez Lynch recipient of @greenwallfdn.bsky.social 2026 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics! 👏 The award recognizes Holly's leadership in bridging divides through thoughtful, collaborative bioethics. 🔗: https://bit.ly/3QWMy3H
🚨 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: "Submit a Comment: Keep Politics Out of Science Funding." 🔬 ⏰ The deadline to submit public comments is TODAY (7/13). Read the essay and submit your comment here: https://bit.ly/4hav1zm
🩺🤔 How do you make the best medical decisions when the science isn't clear? Hastings President @varditravitsky.bsky.social interviewed on Tradeoffs podcast last week (recorded at Aspen Ideas: Health). 📖: https://bit.ly/44iWFmk
🌍 NEW in AJOB: How "America First" Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model What happens when global health funding disappears? HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social argues that today's health challenges demand global cooperation—not isolation. https://bit.ly/4yaWwPm
🧫🤯 Scientists created the most advanced synthetic cell yet—and it can adapt and learn survival skills! Hastings Research Director Gregory Kaebnick joined NPR to discuss what “Spudcell” could mean for science and ethics. 🔬🤔 🎧 Listen: https://n.pr/4gZ3qB7
Stay up to date with The Hastings Center for Bioethics by signing up for our weekly e-newsletter!👏📰 You will learn about our latest publications, research projects, special events and more. 🔗 https://bit.ly/40y4SR8 #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #Newsletter
🤖🌸 What does it really mean to stay human in the age of AI? In a NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Nancy Berlinger (Hastings senior research scholar) explores a thought-provoking new report on this topic. https://bit.ly/4pgwiHv #AI #Bioethics #AIEthics #FutureOfAI
💊⚖️ Science Will Not Save the #AbortionPill In a NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Chris ChoGlueck examines the upcoming Supreme Court case #Louisiana v. FDA and what it could mean for access to abortion pills mailed to states with #AbortionBans. https://bit.ly/4fYYZpE
🦟❓ What if we could eliminate #mosquitoes forever? Should we? Hastings Center Research Director Gregory Kaebnick is featured in a new @vox.com podcast exploring the #ethics of wiping out species to protect #humanhealth. 🔗 : https://bit.ly/4gEttgM
🚜💬 What happens when a migrant farm worker gets sick—but no one can understand them? 📖 Read Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Fraea Renaerts and J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD: lnkd.in/enXREXsr #Bioethics #HealthEquity #MigrantWorkers #PublicHealth #HealthcareAccess
📚✨ Two books by members of the Hastings community are featured in a new review in @bostonreview.bsky.social 🔹 The Art of Flourishing, co-edited by HC Scholar Erik Parens 🔹 A Life Worth Living, by HC Fellow Joel Michael Reynolds 📖 https://bit.ly/3SgX2ev
🌟 Hastings Center for Bioethics President and CEO @varditravitsky.bsky.social is heading to #AspenIdeasHealth this week to participate in two timely panel discussions exploring some of the most challenging questions in medicine and bioethics. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4uLl3HX
🎓✨ We had a fantastic day welcoming Yale University students for their annual visit to The Hastings Center for Bioethics! We’re always inspired by the next generation of #bioethics thinkers and #leaders. 🌟
🩺 Physician or Provider? Does the title really matter? 🤔 A NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Brandon Ambrosino examines the debate over whether physicians should be called "providers"... https://bit.ly/3S1hHDd
🚨 Flesh-eating #screwworms are back in the U.S. after nearly 50 years. In a NEW essay, Hastings Research Director Gregory Kaebnick asks: Could using #GenomeEditing to eradicate one dangerous species make it easier to justify eliminating others? 🧬🤔 https://bit.ly/4xqkZQy
🌍✈️ This week, Hastings Center President @varditravitsky.bsky.social will deliver a keynote address at the international conference "Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" in Paris, France. https://bit.ly/4ee8mix
🇫🇷✈️ A spectacular flyover from our neighbors at West Point. Patrouille de France soared overhead as part of their U.S. goodwill tour commemorating the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. 🇫🇷🤝🇺🇸 #PatrouilleDeFrance #WestPoint
🚨 The flesh-eating screwworm is back, detected in Texas cattle! Hastings Director of Research Gregory Kaebnick weighs in on a provocative question: Should humans ever drive a species to extinction to prevent suffering and economic harm? 🤔 @nbcnews.com 📖 https://bit.ly/4vgfoLj
🎓✨ A huge congratulations to our Project Coordinator, Lourena De Abreu, MBE, on graduating from @harvard.edu with her Master’s Degree in Bioethics! 🎉 #HarvardUniversity #Bioethics #Graduation #FutureLeader
In #Israel after the October 7th attack, a policy was expanded allowing parents of #fallensoldiers to request posthumous #spermretrieval. But who do you think should have the authority to make that decision?🤔 📖 Read, https://bit.ly/4ucL56D