Health Care Rationing During the Pandemic Hastings Center Report Explores Debates Over Crisis Standards of Care
As Covid spreads and leaves intensive care units at or near capacity in several states, some regions have approved crisis standards of care, which involve health care rationing. The latest Hastings Center Report features a collection of pieces on the debates about crisis standards of care—the guidelines for the allocation of health care resources if those resources are too scarce to meet the needs of all patients. Read more.
Upcoming Event: Disability as a Creative Force
To experience “disabled joy” is to feel pleasure, abundance, and fulfillment because of—not despite—disability. In this webinar, artists and writers Jerron Herman, Georgina Kleege, and Julia Watts Belser will discuss how being disabled is a source of creativity, experimentation, and community in their lives and work. The event is the fifth in in a public event series, “The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability,” produced by The Hastings Center and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, October 20, 4:30 – 6:30 ET. Learn more and register.
From Hastings Biothics Forum: Colossal Fantasies; Environmental Ethics
“I have always wanted to see a woolly mammoth,” writes Hastings Center research scholar Gregory Kaebnick. “From the time I first read about them until, well, a few moments ago, I’ve fantasized about going back in time to see a herd shoving its way through an Ice Age snowstorm. Alas, it cannot be, even if George Church bends heaven and earth to make it happen. Read “The Elephant from Heaven and the Chicken from Hell—or: Colossal Fantasies.”
Watching the devastation that Hurricane Ida left behind reinforced for Joseph Fins, a Hastings Center fellow and board member, the need for a larger vision of bioethics beyond the predominant medical ethics paradigm. “Pressing concerns about climate change and the pandemic reveal that we are in nature and not apart from it,” he writes, drawing wisdom from two bioethics leaders and their disagreement. Read “The Evergreen Metaphor: Strachan Donnelley, Dan Callahan, and Environmental Ethics.”
Upcoming Events
"Democratic Deliberation and Gene Editing," a presentation by Hastings Center research scholars Michael Gusmano and Karen Maschke at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 29.
"Creating Health Care Systems of Safety for Immigrants and Refugees," a presentation by Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger at the Division of Medical Ethics series at Weil Cornell Medicine. September 30.
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