November 7, 2019

Belonging: On Disability, Technology, and Community--Join Us!

The Hastings Center launches the first in a series of events in New York City on December 3 to explore how people with disabilities are using technologies to promote their own flourishing--and seeing ways that technologies can undermine their flourishing. This event will feature Haben Girma, the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School; Rachel Kolb, a writer and PhD candidate who was the first Deaf Rhodes scholar at Oxford; and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, the first signing Deaf woman in the world to receive a PhD in philosophy. The series is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and organized by Hastings Center senior research scholar Erik Parens; Joel Michael Reynolds, the Center’s Rice Family Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities; and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a professor at Emory University and a Hastings Center Fellow. Learn more. Register here.

Five Things Bioethicists See in Our Future

Bioethicists gathered recently in Pittsburgh for the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Five themes emerged, including the implications of the massive wave of older Americans who will need long-term assistance, the breakdown of trust between institutions, and economic disparities--prompting bioethicists to focus on justice and structural injustices. Read more.

In the Media: Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine

China controls about 80% of the world's supply of active ingredients for medications, including drugs for cancer, diabetes, HIV, Parkinson's disease, and depression. In an interview with Stat, Hastings Center senior advisor Rosemary Gibson calls this control a security risk. "Drugs should be considered a strategic asset," she says. "We need to do risk assessments of countries and supplies, and what-if scenarios." Read the article.

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