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
Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een...
L’idée de pouvoir choisir certaines caractéristiques de son futur enfant a longtemps relevé de la science-fiction ou du débat éthique...
A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...
Biopolitical Times
If you’ve been online or caught the news in the past few weeks, you’ve probably come across Sydney Sweeney, her...
"Golden mitochondria" by National Institutes of Health
(NIH) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Last week, researchers at...
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...