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The more time passes, the more Nixon looks like a strange, unlikely political ally. The post The Overlooked Father of Modern Research Protections appeared first on The Hastings Center .

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/the-overlooked-father-of-modern-research-protections/

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...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/catastrophe-ethics-and-charitable-giving/

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 fro...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/how-to-avoid-a-genetic-arms-race/

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 scal...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/in-the-shadows-of-war-health-conditions-in-the-zaatari-refugee-camp/

I had underestimated the challenges I would face as an ESL speaker when immersed as a clinical ethicist in the dynamic space of the hospital. This was like learning a third language. The post E...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/emerging-from-the-cacophony-of-clinical-ethics-consultation/

This year will be the most important moment for global health since WHO’s founding in 1948, but only if states give major reforms their full political and financial backing. The post Financin...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/financing-reforms-to-meet-a-pivotal-moment-in-global-health/

With a new technology called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), scientists produced an egg from a male mouse, leading to two male mice having offspring. In mice. IVG could be a game changer for women ...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/todays-politics-threatens-tomorrows-reproductive-technologies/

As two people who have ties to Alabama and grew up in the Deep South, we are frustrated by the state’s ceaseless assault on reproductive freedom, while its politicians continue to ignore child ...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/a-thousand-double-binds-alabama-reproductive-freedom-and-child-health/

How can the legitimate concerns of fertility patients whose embryos are negligently lost be addressed without threatening the very existence of IVF? The post Fetal Personhood, IVF, and the Negl...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/fetal-personhood-ivf-and-the-negligent-loss-of-embryos/

In a recent commentary, physician Alan Astrow  expressed skepticism about the legalization of medical aid in dying.  He cited the subjectivity of determining whose suffering qualifies for medic...

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/its-time-to-change-the-conversation-about-maid/