Sequencing Newborns: A Call for Nuanced Use of Genomic Technologies

Josephine Johnston, LLB, MBHL, Director of Research and Research Scholar, The Hastings Center Affordable genome sequencing has led some to suggest that all newborns be sequenced at birth, setting the stage for a lifetime of medical care and self‐directed preventive actions tailored to each child’s genome. As part of the NSIGHT studies, funded by NIH, this...

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Ethics of Workarounds in Health Care with Hastings Center Scholar Nancy Berlinger

Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL, United States

The Montgomery Lectures series addresses diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Presenters are faculty, affiliates, and alumni of the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program--along with a few special guests. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. They are open to students,...

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Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity

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If the United States is to achieve herd immunity, at least 75-85% of the population will need to be vaccinated, yet there are many different kinds of barriers to overcome. Some Americans are reluctant or wish to wait, because they distrust government or the safety of the vaccines or believe in widespread conspiracy theories. Views...

Questioning Cure: Disability, Identity, and Healing

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Should cure be the ultimate aim of health care? Sometimes aiming at cure entails trying to fix disability rather than enabling disabled people to flourish. Sometimes it obscures the goal of healing. And sometimes aiming at cure entails failing to distinguish between disease and difference. In this webinar, disabled writers and educators Anand Prahlad, Ann...

Medical Interfaces with Emotion AI: Shaping Public Narratives and Perceptions of Nonverbal Patients with Degenerative Diseases

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Hastings Center PMRA Isabel Bolo is presenting, "Medical Interfaces with Emotion AI: Shaping Public Narratives and Perceptions of Nonverbal Patients with Degenerative Diseases" at the CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference 2021: The Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence  

Do Justice and Equity Concerns Bolster or Hinder the Case for the Use of Gene Drive Applications?

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Hastings Center scholar Carolyn Neuhaus is on one panel “Do Justice and Equity Concerns Bolster or Hinder the Case for the Use of Gene Drive Applications?” in a series of five panel deliberations entitled “Unsettled Ethical Issues in Gene Drive Research” through the Forum, a collaboration between The Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) GeneConvene Global Collaborative and...

Short Course on Public Deliberation and Gene Editing in the Wild

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Hastings Center scholars Michael Gusmano and Karen Maschke present a Short Course on Public Deliberation and Gene Editing in the Wild for attendees of Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association via zoom.   Emerging technologies for the genetic modification of organisms present unprecedented opportunities to alter wild populations of organisms, from microbes to...

“BINOCULARITY: A Tool for Comprehending Persons in Depth”

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Hastings Center senior research scholar Erik Parens will present “BINOCULARITY: A Tool for Comprehending Persons in Depth” at the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta. It is plain that, to exhibit care for persons, we need to respect them as persons. I will suggest that, to show respect, we should aspire...

Addressing Racism in Medical Research & Publishing

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Racism and unconscious bias persist in medical research. Given that journalists who write, or aspire to write, about medicine look at journals for story ideas, the editors of those journals have an indispensable role in identifying and eliminating racism in the review and publication of research. What antiracist steps are leading journals taking? What more should be done? What kinds of cues can help journalists recognize racial bias in a research article?

The Role of Choice in Death and Dying in Late Life

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In this symposium, we will discuss the changing attitude towards death and dying in late life, bringing together insights from different disciplines, such as sociology, philosophy, (bio)ethics and thanatology. The question will be raised: what is the impact of the growing emphasis on individual choice regarding death and dying on the way we – as individuals and as a society – live towards the end of life?