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They Volunteered to Get Hepatitis: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (500+ words) “I’m not willing to kill for my country—but I am willing to die for it.” So spoke a so-called “Conchie,” a conscientious objector who volunteered to participate in medical experiments during World War II as a way to avoid…...
Hastings Conversations: Working with Erik Parens
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (105+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Hastings Conversations: Working with Erik Parens Abstract: However helpful have been the papers, reports, and books Erik Parens has produced while at The Hastings Center, conversation with him has always been even better. In both…...
Moral Worlds and Institutional Scripts at the End of Life
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (182+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Moral Worlds and Institutional Scripts at the End of Life Abstract: This commentary responds to Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and colleagues’ article, “Can I Get a Witness? The Ethical Dimensions of Family Presence in Patient Suffering.” The…...
Whose Responsibility? Research Ethics, Integrity, and Governance in Networked Science
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (208+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Whose Responsibility? Research Ethics, Integrity, and Governance in Networked Science Abstract: Large, multi-institutional research networks pose genuine challenges for accountability, authorship, data sharing, mentorship, reproducibility, trust, and governance. In responding to the article “Filling the…...
Delusion Is Not a Bug: AI, Psychiatry, and the Ethics of Uncertainty
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (38+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Delusion Is Not a Bug: AI, Psychiatry, and the Ethics of Uncertainty Never Miss an Article. Never see this message again....
Beyond Words: Addressing Ethical Issues in Clinical Documentation through Medical Education
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (187+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Beyond Words: Addressing Ethical Issues in Clinical Documentation through Medical Education Abstract: Stigmatizing language in medical documentation is a barrier to achieving patient-centered care and health justice: it can contribute to patient distrust and alienation,…...
Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (218+ words) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science Abstract: Scientific research increasingly involves large, multidisciplinary teams networked across multiple institutions to develop new technologies. Despite the rise…...
Off Target: Reporting on Human Embryo Gene Editing: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
1+ week, 2+ day ago (324+ words) That hardening is already happening with the new embryo gene editing protocol. Media outlets have described it as enabling meticulous and precise gene editing in embryos. Such language implies that heritable human genome editing is – or soon will be – safe....
Submit a Comment: Keep Politics Out of Science Funding: The Hastings Center for Bioethics
2+ week, 1+ day ago (175+ words) That conversation began a highly productive collaboration in bioethics that lasted for many years, first in Cleveland and then later when I was at the University of Maryland and Robbins was president of the Institute of Medicine at the National…...
What Should We Make of 'Spudcell'?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (78+ words) What Should We Make of ‘Spudcell’? The Hastings Center for Bioethics What Should We Make of ‘Spudcell’? When news broke that scientists had created the most advanced synthetic cell yet– able to feed, reproduce, grow, and learn survival skills—NPR…...