Katie Hasson
Katie Hasson, PhD, writes, speaks, researches, and teaches about the social and political aspects of human genetic and reproductive technologies. Katie earned her PhD in Sociology with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
Publications
A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...
A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the...
In response to: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2021.29121.gle
Levrier apparently misunderstands the nature of our project published in The CRISPR Journal in October 2020...
In the News
During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health...
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
Biopolitical Times
Media coverage of recent developments in embryo gene editing might seem to suggest that gene-edited babies are close to becoming...
If you’ve been online or caught the news in the past few weeks, you’ve probably come across Sydney Sweeney, her...
Talks and Testimonies
This podcast discussion peeks into the world projected by J.D. Lasica in his new genetics thriller novel, Biohack. Bioethics...
Jesse Mulligan, from RNZ radio in New Zealand talks to CGS' own Katie Hasson regarding how many New Zealanders have sent off...
The Center for Genetics and Society receives numerous invitations to speak in person and via video link to high school...