Hastings Center
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| Motto | Advancing scholarship and public engagement in bioethics since 1969 |
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| Formation | August 28, 1969 |
| Type | Bioethics research institute |
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President
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Mildred Z Solomon |
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Key people
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Nancy Berlinger Daniel Callahan Michael K. Gusmano Josephine Johnston Gregory Kaebnick Karen Maschke Thomas H. Murray Erik Parens |
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Revenue (2015)
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$5,310,654 |
| Expenses (2015) | $3,412,332 |
| Website | www.thehastingscenter.org |
The Hastings Center is an independent, non-partisan bioethics research institute based in Garrison, New York. Founded in 1969 and the first organization of its kind, the Center was instrumental in establishing bioethics as a field of study.
The Center's mission is to address fundamental ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences research and the environment affecting individuals, communities, and societies. After careful consideration and analysis through a unique process that invites diverse views, Hastings scholars publish regular reports, articles and blogs, as well as specific guidelines, policy recommendations and books. They testify at Congressional and Presidential hearings and at national and global conferences.
The Center is funded by grants, private donations, and journal subscriptions.
The Hastings Center was co-founded by Daniel Callahan and Willard Gaylin and was officially recognized as a non-profit organization on August 28, 1969. Offices were originally located in Hastings-on-Hudson, and then subsequently moved to the Briarcliff College site in Briarcliff Manor. The Center is now located in Garrison, New York, on the former Woodlawn estate designed by Richard Upjohn.
The Hastings Center is perhaps best known as the publisher of one of the world's leading journals in bioethics, Hastings Center Report, and IRB: Ethics & Human Research, 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.
Bioethics Forum, the blog of The Hastings Center, "publishes commentaries from a range of perspectives on timely issues in bioethics."
The Hastings Center's projects, carried out by interdisciplinary research teams, focus on five key program areas: health and health care; children and families; aging, chronic conditions, and care near the end of life; emerging science and conceptions of the self; and human impact on the natural world, as well as "through-lines" like human research subjects and education.
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