New neuroscience & society series, dark side of telemental health, aging in place lessons
October 13, 2022
Neuroscience & Society Series to Launch
Fostering Conversation Among Scientists, Policymakers, and the Public
The Hastings Center Report will launch a series of open-access articles and essays on the ethical, legal, and social implications of new findings in neuroscience. The series, supported by the Dana Foundation, will foster dynamic, sustained conversation among neuroscience researchers and legal and ethics scholars with one another, policymakers, and wider publics. Learn more.
The Dark Side of 'Telemental' Health 2022 Roscoe Essay Winner
Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, smartphone applications, and other “telemental” services are promoted as innovative solutions to skyrocketing rates of depression, anxiety, and mental distress. But they pose an array of harms, writes Emma Bedor Hiland in “How Smart Tech Tried to Solve the Mental Health Crisis and Only Made It Worse,” the winner of the 2022 David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society. Learn more. Read the essay.
Learning from Aging in Place Initiatives Join Us on October 20
In the Covid moment, community-based initiatives throughout the United States pivoted to meet the needs of older adults at home. This virtual event explores insights from aging in place initiatives that inform The Hastings Center’s new report with Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies: Advancing Housing and Health Equity for Older Adults: Pandemic Innovations and Policy Ideas. The empirical study that produced this report was funded by the RRF Foundation for Aging. Learn more and register.
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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