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Read The Hastings Center Announces Three Promotions Hastings Center News Hastings Center Open House: June 13 Join us on our campus overlooking the Hudson River for a conversation about AI, Health, and Bioethics featuring Leigh Hafrey, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, and... Read Hastings Center Open House: June 13 Hastings Center News Remembering Nancy Neveloff Dubler (1941-2024) Nancy Neveloff Dubler, a Hastings Center fellow whose pathbreaking work shaped the field of medical ethics, died on April 14. Dubler worked on a wide range of bioethics topics, but... Read Remembering Nancy Neveloff Dubler (1941-2024) Bioethics Forum Essay The Overlooked Father of Modern Research Protections The more time passes, the more Nixon looks like a strange, unlikely political ally. Read The Overlooked Father of Modern Research Protections Bioethics Forum Essay Catastrophe Ethics and Charitable Giving How can we live a morally decent life in a time of massive, structural threats that seem to implicate us at every turn? Climate change is the paradigm example. Am I permitted to fly? Should I buy an electric car? Go vegan? Read Catastrophe Ethics and Charitable Giving Bioethics Forum Essay How to Avoid a Genetic Arms Race Breakthroughs in our ability to change the genes of organisms are generating novel capabilities for biological weapons, a form of warfare that has been largely abandoned for decades. Guidance from scientists and bioethicists is needed to avert the threat. Read How to Avoid a Genetic Arms Race Bioethics Forum Essay In the Shadow of War: Health Conditions in the Za’atari Refugee Camp While working as a medical volunteer in the clinic at the edge of the refugee camp, I quickly realized I was in a clinical environment I had never seen before. I was unprepared for the sheer scale of medical needs among the refugees I was there to serve, and for what resource scarcity meant under these conditions. Read In the Shadow of War: Health Conditions in the Za’atari Refugee Camp Hastings Center News Introducing Voices in Bioethics from the Caribbean What does it take to assure that ecotourism is done ethically, taking into account its impact on local residents and local ecosystems? Should doctors tell breast cancer patients all their... Read Introducing Voices in Bioethics from the Caribbean Events May 29 May 29, 2024, 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT The Future of Bioethics May 30 May 30, 2024, 2:00 am - May 31, 2024, 11:00 am EDT Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them? Jun 3 June 3, 2024, 8:00 am - June 6, 2024, 5:00 pm EDT World Congress of Bioethics All Events Background image to illustrate events. 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