Google Health bioethics summit, doctors' eyeball test bias, acceptable number of Covid deaths, genetic science to the rescue
October 6, 2022
AI & Health Summit
Join Us on October 12
This forum, a collaboration between Google Health and The Hastings Center, will explore the most pressing ethical issues in artificial intelligence and health care. Please join us onWednesday, October 12, at 2:45 pm ETfor a special virtual session on operationalizing the new World Health Organization guidelines on artificial intelligence in health. Learn more.
Would a Disabled Patient Benefit from Surgery? Doctors' Eyeball Test Can Be Biased
Guided by their desire to do good and avoid harm, surgeons rely on the eyeball test to decide whether a patient will or will not benefit from surgery. But the eyeball test can easily harbor a range of implicit judgments and biases against patients with disabilities, explains Joel Michael Reynolds, a Hastings Center senior advisor and an assistant professor at Georgetown, and co-authors in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more.
Acceptable Number of Covid Deaths, Genetic Science to the Rescue From Hastings Bioethics Forum
“Is there an Acceptable Number of Covid-19 Deaths?” President Biden recently declared that the Covid pandemic is over. And yet 400-500 Americans die of Covid each day? How many Covid deaths are acceptable? Emily Largent and Franklin Miller explore this question. Read their essay.
“Could Alarm Over Genetic Manipulation Get in the Way of Environmental Conservation?” Hastings Center research scholar Gregory Kaebnick is concerned that it might, and he makes the case that genome editing strategies to safeguard biodiversity are not as radical as they may seem. Read his essay.
Upcoming Events
"Advancing Housing and Health Equity for Older Adults: Learning from Aging in Place Initiatives." The Hastings Center and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, October 20.
"A Critical Moment in Bioethics," discussion at the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Portland, Oregon, October. 28.
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