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
As genetic technologies merge with forensics, medicine, and human reproduction, renewed eugenic temptations are arising. The prospect of heritable genetic...
Late last year, scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of the world’s first genetically modified babies. He deployed a...
The fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the...
In the News
A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...
The National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) has confirmed that heritable human genome editing (HHGE) remains illegal in South Africa...
A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the...
Biopolitical Times
The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, scheduled for March 7-9 in London, has now been postponed to...
The watchdog group Public Citizen published a report on October 19 titled Pfizer’s Power. It is a devastating indictment...
An organization of scientists is recommending that limitations on several experimental and controversial research procedures – including heritable genome editing...