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The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969. Its mission is to address fundamental ethical issues in the areas of health, medicine, and the environment as they affect individuals, communities, and societies.

Recent Posts
What State Budget Cuts Mean for the Most Troubled Children
By Josephine Johnston and Erik Parens—If your child ends up on 12 North, the Children's Psychiatry Unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, he has probably been diagnosed with one, or many, serious mental disorders. He (or she) has likely been prescribed myriad medications.
Why I Mostly Love ASB Bank’s IVF Ad
By Josephine Johnston—News reports say the television advertisement "sparked an uproar." It chronicles a couple failing to conceive before getting a bank loan for IVF. The ad has been called "disgusting" and "exploitive of people in a desperate situation," and apparently led to complaints to New Zealand's Advertising Standards Authority.
Pretty in Pink: Is This Women's Health Activism?
By Colleen Farrell—Have the "pink" campaigns for breast cancer awareness month gone too far? Some, especially the organization Think Before You Pink, have examined whether money raised by breast cancer charity events contributes to the cause in a meaningful way.
An Insider's View of Boston Med

By Melissa Kurtz—How many television shows have been about hospitals? How often have they rendered the complexity and drama at all accurately? This summer that may almost have happened. Boston Med, an eight-week show that ended last month...

By Melissa Kurtz—How many television shows have been about hospitals? How often have they rendered the complexity and drama at all accurately? This summer that may almost have happened. Boston Med, an eight-week show that ended last month...

Are the Kids Really All Right?

By Vardit Ravitsky and Joanna E. Scheib—In the recently released film The Kids Are All Right, two siblings track down their sperm donor and introduce him to their lesbian mothers. What ensues is a plausible unfolding of events when genetically related strangers meet.

By Vardit Ravitsky and Joanna E. Scheib—In the recently released film The Kids Are All Right, two siblings track down their sperm donor and introduce him to their lesbian mothers. What ensues is a plausible unfolding of events when genetically related strangers meet.