Hastings Center
Encyclopedia
The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics
research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care
, biotechnology
, and the environment
. The center has over 180 fellows, including many physician
s, attorneys
, PhDs and bioethicists.
It is headquartered in Garrison, New York
, on the former Woodlawn
estate designed by Richard Upjohn
.
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Default.aspx and IRB: Ethics & Human Research
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/IRB/Default.aspx, which feature scholarship and commentary in bioethics for readers worldwide. Both are published six times per year. The Report also periodically features special reports, published as supplements, from the center's research projects.
In March 2006, the center launched Bioethics Forum http://www.bioethicsforum.org/, a free website "offering thoughtful commentary, representing a range of perspectives, on contemporary debates in bioethics and bioethical issues in the news."
The Health Care Cost Monitor was added in May 2009. Edited by Hastings Center cofounder Daniel Callahan
, the blog publishes "commentary and opinion on cost control as part of health care reform
."
and its impact on health status, to "science in the age of big pharma". Primary research areas include genetics
and biotechnology, health care and health policy, ethics, science, the environment, and international science ethics. The center strives to frame and explore issues that inform professional practice, public conversation, and social policy.
The center conducts seminar-style meetings to review developments in science and policy, frame legal and social issues, and in-depth critical reflection on fundamental principles and values. Center research scholars write and speak on a variety of topics and assist members of the press and others.
The center is funded by grant money, private donations, and subscriptions.
The Morison Library serves as a resource for center research scholars, fellows, visitors, and others.
, Henry K. Beecher
, Sissela Bok
, Jay Katz
, Daniel Callahan
, Willard Gaylin
, Paul Ramsey
, Joseph Fletcher
, and Hans Jonas
.
Hastings Center Fellows
Bioethics
Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy....
research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
, biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...
, and the environment
Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
. The center has over 180 fellows, including many physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
s, attorneys
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
, PhDs and bioethicists.
It is headquartered in Garrison, New York
Garrison, New York
Garrison is a hamlet in Putnam County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Philipstown and is on the east side of the Hudson River, across from the United States Military Academy at West Point...
, on the former Woodlawn
Woodlawn (Garrison, New York)
Woodlawn is a former estate house overlooking the Hudson River in Garrison, New York, United States. It was designed in the mid-19th century by Richard Upjohn, who resided in the area for the last years of his life....
estate designed by Richard Upjohn
Richard Upjohn
Richard Upjohn was an English-born architect who emigrated to the United States and became most famous for his Gothic Revival churches. He was partially responsible for launching the movement to such popularity in the United States. Upjohn also did extensive work in and helped to popularize the...
.
Publications
The center is best known as the publisher of Hastings Center ReportHastings Center Report
Since 1971, the Hastings Center Report has been one of the leading journals of bioethics in the United States. It is published six times each year by the Hastings Center in Garrison, New York. Gregory Kaebnick is the current editor....
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Default.aspx and IRB: Ethics & Human Research
IRB: Ethics & Human Research
IRB: Ethics & Human Research is a peer reviewed academic journal covering bioethics in the United States. It is published six times each year by the Hastings Center in Garrison, New York since 1979. Karen J. Maschke is the current editor....
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/IRB/Default.aspx, which feature scholarship and commentary in bioethics for readers worldwide. Both are published six times per year. The Report also periodically features special reports, published as supplements, from the center's research projects.
In March 2006, the center launched Bioethics Forum http://www.bioethicsforum.org/, a free website "offering thoughtful commentary, representing a range of perspectives, on contemporary debates in bioethics and bioethical issues in the news."
The Health Care Cost Monitor was added in May 2009. Edited by Hastings Center cofounder Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan was born July 19, 1930. Callahan is a philosopher widely recognized for his innovative studies in biomedical ethics.·In high school Callahan was a swimmer and choose to attend Yale University because of its competitive swimming program. While at Yale, he was drawn to...
, the blog publishes "commentary and opinion on cost control as part of health care reform
Health care reform
Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes—for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place...
."
Research
The center's projects, carried out by interdisciplinary research teams, range from "stem cell politics", to globalizationGlobalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
and its impact on health status, to "science in the age of big pharma". Primary research areas include genetics
Genetics
Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
and biotechnology, health care and health policy, ethics, science, the environment, and international science ethics. The center strives to frame and explore issues that inform professional practice, public conversation, and social policy.
The center conducts seminar-style meetings to review developments in science and policy, frame legal and social issues, and in-depth critical reflection on fundamental principles and values. Center research scholars write and speak on a variety of topics and assist members of the press and others.
The center is funded by grant money, private donations, and subscriptions.
The Morison Library serves as a resource for center research scholars, fellows, visitors, and others.
Current Research Projects
- Connecting Values With American Health Care Reform
- Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology
- From Assisted Reproduction to Stem Cells: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book
- HIDE: Homeland Security, Biometric Identification and Personal Detection Ethics
- Law & Ethics of Drug Addiction Genetics Research (LEDGER)
- On the Uses and Misuses of Neuroimaging Technologies
- Pharmacological Treatment of Emotional and Behavioral Disturbances in Children: Engaging the Controversies
- Policy Options for Ensuring Ethical Conduct of Quality Improvement (QI) Activities in Health Care
- Professional Chaplains and Health Care Quality Improvement
- The Chaplain's Role in Pediatric Palliative Care: Mapping Model Programs
- The Hastings Center Guidelines on End-of-Life Care
- The Ideal of Nature: Appeals to Nature in Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment
- WGBH: Designing Life
Henry Knowles Beecher Awards
Since 1976, the center's Henry Knowles Beecher Award has recognized "individuals who have made a lifetime contribution to ethics and the life sciences and whose careers have been devoted to excellence in scholarship, research, and ethical inquiry." Recipients include Joanne Lynn, Edmund D. PellegrinoEdmund D. Pellegrino
Edmund Daniel Pellegrino was the 11th president of The Catholic University of America and the second layman to hold the position....
, Henry K. Beecher
Henry K. Beecher
Henry Knowles Beecher was an important figure in the history of anesthesiology and medicine, receiving awards and honors during his career. His 1966 article on unethical practices in medical experimentation within the New England Journal of Medicine was instrumental in the implementation of...
, Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok, born 2 December 1934, is a Swedish-born philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982....
, Jay Katz
Jay Katz
Jay Katz may refer to:* Jay Katz , American medical ethicist* A nickname for Jaimie Leonarder* A pseudonym for Jim Keith...
, Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan was born July 19, 1930. Callahan is a philosopher widely recognized for his innovative studies in biomedical ethics.·In high school Callahan was a swimmer and choose to attend Yale University because of its competitive swimming program. While at Yale, he was drawn to...
, Willard Gaylin
Willard Gaylin
Willard Gaylin is an American psychiatrist and bioethicist. Along with Daniel Callahan, Gaylin founded The Hastings Center in 1969. He has served as a professor of psychiatry at Columbia Medical School, a professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia Law School, and an adjunct professor at Union...
, Paul Ramsey
Paul Ramsey
Paul Christopher Ramsey is a former professional footballer and Northern Ireland international who played in a defensive midfield role. He featured for Northern Ireland in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.-Career:...
, Joseph Fletcher
Joseph Fletcher
Joseph Fletcher was an American professor who founded the theory of situational ethics in the 1960s, and was a pioneer in the field of bioethics. Fletcher was a leading academic involved in the topics of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics, and cloning. Ordained as an Episcopal priest, he...
, and Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas was a German-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.Jonas's writings were very influential in different spheres...
.
Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards
In 2009, the center and the Cunniff-Dixon foundation launched the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards. Four prizes totaling $95,000 will be awarded to physicians who "have shown their care of patients to be exemplary, a model of good medicine for other physicians, and a great benefit in advancing the centrality of end-of-life care as a basic part of the doctor-patient relationship." The 2010 recipients were Robert A. Milch for the established physician award, and Elisabeth Potts Dellon, Jeffrey N. Stoneberg, and Eytan Szmuilowicz for the early-career physician awards.External links
- TheHastingsCenter.org – 'The Hastings Center: Bioethics and Public Policy', Hastings Center homepage
- BioethicsForum.org – Bioethics Forum: Diverse Commentary on Issues in Bioethics
- Health Care Cost Monitor – commentary and opinion on cost control as a part of health reform
- Values & Health Reform Connection – a nonpartisan effort to spark a rich discourse on fundamental values in health reform
See also
- Hastings Center ReportHastings Center ReportSince 1971, the Hastings Center Report has been one of the leading journals of bioethics in the United States. It is published six times each year by the Hastings Center in Garrison, New York. Gregory Kaebnick is the current editor....
Hastings Center Fellows