Religious Exemptions; Precision Medicine; Pandemic Lessons

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** October 22, 2021
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** Disability as a Creative Force:
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Going hiking with a wheelchair. Listening to the sounds of Richard Serra’s “Sequence” sculpture. Dancing in celebration of hearth and home while unleashing the creative force of disability. Three artists and writers challenged the “life-killing stereotype” that disability is all about suffering in a recent online event, the fifth one in “The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability,” an events series produced by The Hastings Center and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more and watch the event ([link removed]) .


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** Criminal Investigation, Genetic Data, & Ethics
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In the years since the Golden State Killer cold case was solved in part with DNA from an ancestry database, the use of genetic information by law enforcement has grown. What are the benefits? What are the privacy concerns? Some states are regulating the practice, but what more should be done? These were the issues raised in the latest event in the “Bioethics for Journalists” discussion series, which took place this week. Sarah Zhang, a staff writer for The Atlantic, moderated the discussion with CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist, and Ellen Wright Clayton, a bioethicist at Vanderbilt University and a Hastings Center fellow. They agreed that genetic data could be used to identify tens of thousands of violent criminals, but that if it’s not handled responsibly, public trust could be lost, along with access to an important crime-solving tool.

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** From Hastings Bioethics Forum: Brain-Death
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A remarkable new experiment raises questions about whether brain-death is really death, as it is considered to be medically and legally throughout the United States, writes Hastings Center Fellow Franklin Miller. Read “Individuals Declared Brain-Dead Remain Biologically Alive.” ([link removed])


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Pandemic Ethics: Reflections on Justice and the Common Good, a presentation by Hastings Center President Mildred Solomon at the Mayo Clinic, December 2 ([link removed]) .

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