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Why are young women opting to be sterilized? 😩 What are unintended consequences of this decision?🤔 Hastings Center Bioethicist and Research Associate Danielle Pacia weighs in, NEW article by Deseret News! bit.ly/41pegrZ #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #Sterilization #FertilityCrisis

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Season 2 of The Big Question premieres Monday, February 24 – kicking off with a thought-provoking conversation featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, Insoo Hyun of the Museum of Science, and Vardit Ravitsky of @hastingscenter.bsky.social.

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Attention Chicago friends❗ Register Now for "Business and Medical Ethics: Ensuring the Primacy of Patient Care."📣 👏 🗓 Saturday, March 8 at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/ecWHkggu

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Join our President, Vardit Ravitsky in Miami, FL on March 17th for a discussion on “An Israeli Perspective on Bioethical Dilemmas” at The Miami Beach Jewish Community Center (JCC). 📅 👍 To register, scan the QR code in the flyer below!🎟️ #hastingscenter #bioethics #israel #israeli

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What bioethics needs is a rich working definition of spirituality as a common dimension of human life.💭 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Larry R. Churchill, read bit.ly/3X2HPgy #hastingscenter #bioethics #religion #spirituality

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Join us for a webinar TOMORROW at 12pm to discuss climate change resilience in the Caribbean! 🌎 🌀 🌪️ 🌊 🏝️ Register here🎟️ ✅ , www.thehastingscenter.org/hastings-cen... #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #ClimateChange #Caribbean #Climate ht

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Supporting Patients and Students Who Are Immigrants: What to Do and Why Most Bioethicists Won’t Do It 🤔 New Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by @bioethxmark.bsky.social, READ bit.ly/3CL5nQ0 #hastingscenter #bioethics #immigrants

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The excitement is building that the first ever in-human pig xenotransplant clinical trials may soon begin! 🤯 👏 However, this also raises ethical concerns about patients’ decision-making to participate in such trials… 🤔 💭 bit.ly/42NY3hm #bioethics #xenotransplants

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In this @hastingscenter.bsky.social essay, I ask the #bioethics community to consider swerving out of our lane to meet the needs of patients and students who are #immigrants. If not us, who? #DACA #medicine www.thehastingscenter.org/supporting-p...

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The Medical Community is Due for an Alcohol Detox 🍸 ❌ It’s time for the medical community to re-examine its relationship with alcohol✅ . Read, bit.ly/3CCZ3tT #hastingscenter #bioethics #alochol #carcinogen #cancer #medicalcommunity

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We are proud to announce we are partnering with @hastingscenter.bsky.social to support early career scholars. Learn more about the inaugural CERA Fellow on ELSIhub.

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Interesting @nytimes.com article, featuring comments from Nancy Berlinger, senior research scholar at The Hastings Center. Her scholarship focuses on #bioethics for aging societies, with special attention to #dementia care. nyti.ms/4aMdW9H #hastingscenter #dementiapatients

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Announcing a new partnership with the Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis (CERA) @elsihub.bsky.social to support career development for students who are interested in ethical, legal, and social implications research of genomics.👏 Learn more, bit.ly/4glxqmL #bioethics #researchgenomics

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In this paper, we argue that addressing ethical issues in #DataScience health research and #genomics requires a holistic social contract. Thanks to @hastingscenter.bsky.social Report for considering & publishing our work (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...).

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Looking for new reading material to exercise the brain?📕 🧠 🤓 Our journal, the Hastings Center Report, explores the ethical, legal and social issues in medicine, healthcare, public health and the life sciences. ✅ Read, bit.ly/3Ekueuv #Bioethics #ethicalissues

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Congratulations to Dr. Margaret “Gretchen” Schwarze, Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery, who was recently named a 2024 Hastings Center Fellow! @hastingscenter.bsky.social bit.ly/40RcuQ1

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Health professionals need to start talking to people as peers, not as patients—something that anti-vaxxers have been doing successfully for years… New Hastings Bioethics Forum Essay by Nathaniel Mamo, READ bit.ly/3Cuo1vq #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #Vaccines #RFK

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Were hiring! 📣 The HC is seeking applicants for a Research Associate position to begin early spring/summer 2025. ✅ Learn more and apply for the position, bit.ly/4ggEFMW #bioethics #hiring #researchassociate

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Why #Bioethics Should Welcome #Religion 🤔 💭 Bioethics has increasingly turned away from religion, embracing methods of law, philosophy, and empirical sciences. But welcoming religion is key for many reasons. New HC Bioethics Forum Essay, www.thehastingscenter.org/religion-wel...

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Scientific Dualisms ☯️ The friendship banter continues!😃🤝 NEW @elsihub.bsky.social article by @ent3c.bsky.social, in response to HC Senior Research Scholar, Erik Parens review of Turkheimer’s new book on behavioral genetics. READ, elsihub.org/news/scienti... #hastingscenter #bioethics

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📖 New Hastings Center Special Report: Envisioning a More Just Genomics. This special report is a collaboration between @hastingscenter.bsky.social and the Center for ELSI Resource and analysis (CERA). Learn more: elsihub.org/news/new-spe...

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COMING SOON📣 : policy briefs and other AI essentials from Hastings on the Hill👏 a NEW hub of resources on how to ethically and responsibly deploy AI in health, supported by @greenwallfdn.bsky.social Sign up for updates, bit.ly/42rpOfw #HastingsOntheHill #Bioethics #AI

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Applications are now open for our 2025 HC Summer Bioethics Program for Underrepresented Undergraduates!😊👏 This is a five-day live online program. Learn more and apply, lnkd.in/d2cxbgeU #hastingscenter #bioethics #bioethicsprogram #undergraduates

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Should life-saving medicine be continued for an unhoused patient with an addiction? 💭 New clinical ethics case study by Paola Nicolas at Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics, READ www.thehastingscenter.org/should-life-... #hastingscenter #clinicalethics #bioethics

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Hastings Center Relaunches its Visiting Scholars Program 👏 During Covid the program was halted, but applications for stays are now open. ✅ thehastingscenter.org/news/hastings-… #HastingsCenter #ScholarsProgram #Bioethics #VisitingScholars #Scholars

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We are launching the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Global Bioethics Program, a two-year pilot initiative connecting HC Fellows as mentors with early-career bioethicists from low-resource regions around the world! 👏🌎 Learn more, bit.ly/4hjo2kr #Bioethics

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We are excited to welcome Louise P. King, MD, JD, of @harvardmed.bsky.social to our board of directors!🤩 👏 She is a national leader in reproductive bioethics with a unique combination of experiences & a long history of impactful clinical & ethical research. bit.ly/4jdG61n #BioEthics

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After witnessing the first death of a patient, a medical student searches for meaning.🙁 🤔 💭 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum Essay by David Curtis, read bit.ly/4j6O4cu #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #MetaphoricalTruths

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What makes certain scientific research controversial? 🤔And when does it go beyond being merely controversial to being far worse? NEW Hastings Center Report article. READ, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... authors: @lucasjmatthews.bsky.social, @ent3c.bsky.social, and James Tabery. #bioethics

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Were hiring!📣 The Hastings Center is seeking applicants for a Project Coordinator position to begin immediately. 👏 To learn more and apply for the position, hastingscenter.wufoo.com/forms/zw9m98... #hastingscenter #bioethics #hiring #projectcoordinator #projectmanagement

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It’s out!📣 The latest issue of E&HR, focusing on moral distress in clinical research and research with incarcerated/homeless women. READ 📗 , bit.ly/40qHfLu #Bioethics #ClinicalResearch #CommunityEngagedResearch #MoralDistress #IncarceratedWomen #Homelesswomen

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Nominations are still open for the 2025 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Nursing Awards! 📣 Prizes of $25K each will go to three nurses who provide outstanding end-of-life care, based on compassionate service & merit. Deadline is 1/31/25 bit.ly/47LZwoN #bioethics #nurses

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For those of us in bioethics, it is important to recall Carter’s contributions to our field. 👏 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum by Joseph Fins www.thehastingscenter.org/jimmy-carter... #Bioethics #JimmyCarter

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The goal of genomic medicine is to improve health outcomes via an individual’s unique genetic architecture. However, genomic technologies have not been equitably applied to improve health for all…. NEW HC Special Report Article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #Bioethics #Genomics

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Did you know alcohol is a class 1 carcinogen, & is not safe?🤯🍷 Despite this, alcohol remains strongly mixed into medical culture & is often served FREE at medical community events! This presents numerous ethical concerns…NEW HC Report essay, bit.ly/4a74EFg #bioethics #alcohol #carcinogen

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It’s out! New Hastings Center Special Report: Envisioning a More Just Genomics. 📣 👏 Read, bit.ly/40dX48h This special report is a collaboration between The Hastings Center and the Center for ELSI Resource and analysis (CERA) @elsihub.bsky.social #Bioethics #Genomics #Genetics

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It has been a successful 2024, thanks to YOU!😊 To view some of the past year's highlights of our work and receive a personal video message from our President, Vardit Ravitsky, bit.ly/4gFoKZK #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #YearEndHighlights #WinterWishes #NewYear

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Proud to co-author this article on the caveats of data sharing initiatives for marginalized communities with my colleague Stephanie Kraft, JD in a new @hastingscenter.bsky.social Special Report on Envisioning a More Just #Genomics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #GeneChat #ELSI

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