Hastings Center
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| Motto | The Hastings Center is a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest since 1969. |
| Formation | 1969 |
| Type | Bioethics research institute |
| Headquarters | Garrison, New York |
| Location |  United States |
| President | Thomas H. Murray |
| Key people |
Daniel Callahan Josephine Johnston Michael K. Gusmano Gregory Kaebnick Karen Maschke Erik Parens |
| Website | www.thehastingscenter.org |
The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment. The center has over 180 fellows, including many physicians, attorneys, PhDs and bioethicists.
It is headquartered in Garrison, New York, on the former Woodlawn estate designed by Richard Upjohn.
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[edit] Publications
The center is best known as the publisher of Hastings Center Report [1] and IRB: Ethics & Human Research [2], which feature scholarship and commentary in bioethics for readers worldwide. Both are published six times per year. The Report also periodically features special reports, published as supplements, from the center's research projects.
In March 2006, the center launched Bioethics Forum [3], a free website "offering thoughtful commentary, representing a range of perspectives, on contemporary debates in bioethics and bioethical issues in the news."[1]
The Health Care Cost Monitor was added in May 2009. Edited by Hastings Center cofounder Daniel Callahan, the blog publishes "commentary and opinion on cost control as part of health care reform."[2]
[edit] Research
The center's projects, carried out by interdisciplinary research teams, range from "stem cell politics", to globalization and its impact on health status, to "science in the age of big pharma". Primary research areas include genetics and biotechnology, health care and health policy, ethics, science, the environment, and international science ethics. The center strives to frame and explore issues that inform professional practice, public conversation, and social policy.
The center conducts seminar-style meetings to review developments in science and policy, frame legal and social issues, and in-depth critical reflection on fundamental principles and values. Center research scholars write and speak on a variety of topics and assist members of the press and others.
The center is funded by grant money, private donations, and subscriptions.
The Morison Library serves as a resource for center research scholars, fellows, visitors, and others.
[edit] Current Research Projects
- Connecting Values With American Health Care Reform
- Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology
- From Assisted Reproduction to Stem Cells: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book
- HIDE: Homeland Security, Biometric Identification and Personal Detection Ethics
- Law & Ethics of Drug Addiction Genetics Research (LEDGER)
- On the Uses and Misuses of Neuroimaging Technologies
- Pharmacological Treatment of Emotional and Behavioral Disturbances in Children: Engaging the Controversies
- Policy Options for Ensuring Ethical Conduct of Quality Improvement (QI) Activities in Health Care
- Professional Chaplains and Health Care Quality Improvement
- The Chaplain's Role in Pediatric Palliative Care: Mapping Model Programs
- The Hastings Center Guidelines on End-of-Life Care
- The Ideal of Nature: Appeals to Nature in Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment
- WGBH: Designing Life
[edit] Awards
[edit] Henry Knowles Beecher Awards
Since 1976, the center's Henry Knowles Beecher Award has recognized "individuals who have made a lifetime contribution to ethics and the life sciences and whose careers have been devoted to excellence in scholarship, research, and ethical inquiry." Recipients include Joanne Lynn, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Henry K. Beecher, Sissela Bok, Jay Katz, Daniel Callahan, Willard Gaylin, Paul Ramsey, Joseph Fletcher, and Hans Jonas.[3]
[edit] Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards
In 2009, the center and the Cunniff-Dixon foundation launched the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards. Four prizes totaling $95,000 will be awarded to physicians who "have shown their care of patients to be exemplary, a model of good medicine for other physicians, and a great benefit in advancing the centrality of end-of-life care as a basic part of the doctor-patient relationship."[4] The 2010 recipients were Robert A. Milch for the established physician award, and Elisabeth Potts Dellon, Jeffrey N. Stoneberg, and Eytan Szmuilowicz for the early-career physician awards.[5]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- TheHastingsCenter.org – 'The Hastings Center: Bioethics and Public Policy', Hastings Center homepage
- BioethicsForum.org – Bioethics Forum: Diverse Commentary on Issues in Bioethics
- Health Care Cost Monitor – commentary and opinion on cost control as a part of health reform
- Values & Health Reform Connection – a nonpartisan effort to spark a rich discourse on fundamental values in health reform
