The Hastings Center Receives Cornerstone Award from ASBH

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The Hastings Center received the first ever Cornerstone Award from the American Society for Bioethics + Humanities on October 17, at the Society's annual meeting.

The Cornerstone Award "recognizes outstanding contributions by an institution that has helped shape the direction of the fields of bioethics and/or the medical humanities."

In presenting the award, ASBH president Hilde Lindemann, a Hastings Center Fellow and former research scholar there, said, "As a Hastings Center alumna, I am doubly delighted to see the Center receive this well-deserved and groundbreaking tribute."

"Forty years after the Center's founding, it's wonderful to see how the field of bioethics has grown, and to witness the Center honored by our colleagues for its foundational role," said Tom Murray, president of The Hastings Center.

Daniel Callahan, president emeritus and cofounder of the Center, praised ASBH. "We are exceedingly proud to receive an award from an organization, younger than ours, that has grown and matured in a most striking way," he said. "To be honored by such an organization is especially gratifying."