Comic explores extinction, health equity event, and more
May 16, 2024
Would Causing Extinction Ever Be the Right Thing to Do? Comic explores that question.
Hastings Center research director Gregory Kaebnick sat down with graphic journalist Deb Lucke to discuss the ethics of deliberate extinction—the use of genetic technologies to sacrifice certain harmful species for the greater good of nature. She created a comic that vividly illustrates the issues that Kaebnick’s project on deliberate extinction is grappling with, weighing the case for offing malaria-carrying mosquitoes, a flesh-eating parasite, and Lyme disease-spreading mice. See the comic.
Do People Who Attempt Suicide Have the Right Not to Be Stabilized? Sometimes, yes, says one ethicist.
If an adult arrives in a hospital ER after attempting suicide, the standard of care in the United States is to stabilize the patient, even if they refuse life-sustaining treatment. But one ethicist challenges this practice. Writing in the Hastings Center Report, Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc argues that stabilizing suicide attempters over their objection sometimes violates a basic yet insufficiently appreciated right—the right against bodily invasion. Read the article.
In the Media Aging in place, AI in scholarly publishing
Learning to love grab bars. Most older Americans want to live in their homes for as long as possible, but only 4% of U.S. homes are fully accessible. Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger, who directs a Greenwall Foundation-funded project on supporting aging through housing choice, explained to the AP how homeowners of all ages and budgets can benefit from design solutions. Read the article.
No AI rewind. Hastings Center research director and co-editor of the Hastings Center Report Gregory Kaebnick applauded the launch of a survey to gain insight into the opportunities and risks of generative AI in scholarly publishing. “The nature of transformative technology is that you can’t anticipate what the change will be. But once it’s happened, you can’t rewind,” he said in an interview with Inside Higher Ed. Read the article.
Join Us: National Health Equity Grand Grounds State of the union for health justice work in U.S.
Register today to attend the first National Health Equity Grand Rounds event of 2024, Advancing Health Equity Through Resistance: A State of the Union on Threats and Opportunities, on Thursday, May 30 from 4:30 – 6:00 PM EDT. The Hastings Center is a collaborator. Expert speakers will discuss successful efforts and strategies to counter resistance and advance health equity to support health for every individual and community. Health care professionals may claim no-cost continuing medical education (CME) credit or certificate of participation for attending. Learn more and register.
The Future of Bioethics, Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky is the featured speaker at the 28th annual Joseph N. Muschel Memorial House Staff Award Lecture, Columbia University Medical Center. May 29.
Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them? Conference organized in collaboration with The Center for the Study of Bioethics, The Hastings Center, and The Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics. May 30-31.
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