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Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway
Our new edited volume grew from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2023 annual conference. It explores the intersection of private law and health care, especially how private law (as opposed to government regulation) might be a tool for achieving health care reform or addressing a significant health care or public health problem. Chapters discuss private law theory and structure, reproductive care, costs and financing, innovation and institutions, and contracts and torts. I. Glenn Cohen, Susannah Baruch, Wendy Netter Epstein, Christopher Robertson, and Carmel Shachar edited the volume, which is available open access now.
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The Unconscionability of Emergency Room “Cash Pay” Contracts
Imagine rushing to an emergency room after developing chest pain and shortness of breath. A staff member hands you a financial responsibility contract that you sign without reading. A physician diagnoses you with a heart attack and performs an angioplasty.
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The Constitutive Contradictions of Prison Health Care in the United States
From forced labor on plantations, roads, and industrial plants to extracting blood, fines, and fees, incarcerated peoples’ bodies have been a known site of capitalist exploitation. Yet, they are also the only group entitled to a quasi-constitutional right to health derived from the Eighth Amendment’s caselaw limiting cruel and unusual punishment.
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States Must Step Up After Federal Court Tosses Key Protection for Nursing Home Residents
After the COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic care failures in American nursing homes, the Biden Administration adopted a series of regulatory changes to enhance resident safety.
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AI Medical Assistants: Solving Medical Illiteracy to Reduce Health Care Costs
Solving medical illiteracy and reducing health care costs are now possible because of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Fireside Chat: I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
