Broader view of gender-affirming care; recalibrating bioethics; aid-in-dying, scholars honored
June 15, 2023
Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People Why a Broader View Matters
The term “gender-affirming care” is almost always applied to treatment for transgender people, but an article in the Hastings Center Report argues that such care predominates among cisgender people, whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. The authors—Theodore Schall and Jacob Moses--discuss why having a broader view of gender-affirming care matters—for respecting patients, mitigating bias, and reducing polarization in discussions about transgender and gender-diverse people. Read their article (subscription required). Read a Q & A with the authors.
Recalibrating Bioethics for the Reality of Interdependence The Challenge of Collective-Impact Problems
In her valedictory essay, president emeritus Mildred Solomon reflects on the challenges bioethics has recently addressed and recommends where the field should go next. The essay calls on bioethics to more forcefully take up “collective-impact” problems–these are problems in need of guidance that will affect all of us. “U.S. bioethics in particular will need to balance individual rights and freedom of choice with concerns about the ways in which too-rigid adherence to individualism can impinge on the rights of others and reduce the quality of the shared environment.” Read her essay.
Hastings Senior Advisors Honored Fletcher and Taylor Named Faculty Scholars
Senior advisors Faith Fletcher (left) and Lauren Taylor were named Greenwall Faculty Scholars, a program that helps build the next generation of leaders in bioethics by supporting early-career faculty members to carry out innovative research. Read more about them and their research.
When Aid-in-Dying Is Personal; We Have Met the Enemy From Hastings Bioethics Forum
Honoring My Friend’s Last Words. “There’s not a shred of doubt in my mind that his decision to go to Switzerland, which permits assisted dying with few restrictions, was made with full capacity,” writes Rafael Escandon. “I’ll always feel like I missed an opportunity by sending his call to voicemail.” Read his essay.
We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us. In its early days, bioethics emphasized patient autonomy in doctor-patient relationships, writes Arthur Caplan. “But patient autonomy is not the be-all and end-all principle to follow in all health care settings. Especially in lethal airborne infectious disease pandemics.” Read his essay.
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