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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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Call for Applications: The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship 2025-2026
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to scholarly research at the intersection of law and health. Topics of interest include health care financing, market regulation, artificial intelligence in health care, biotechnology, biomedical research, intellectual property, neuroscience and the law, global health,…
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Forced C-Sections: The Legal Battle Over Bodily Autonomy in Childbirth
In July 2011, Rinat Dray delivered a healthy baby boy via cesarean section, or “C-section,” at Staten Island University Hospital—against her will.
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Poor Transparency and Corruption in Disease Reporting Could Precipitate the Next Pandemic
One of the growing public health concerns this year is the Bird flu, or avian influenza A(H5N1) 2.3.4.4b clade virus, which has been circulating in the Americas since 2022.
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Channeling the Power of Generative Health AI: Implications for Health Care, Research, and Governance (Part I)
Medicine is one of humanity’s greatest information-processing challenges. Understanding and repairing the human body requires synthesizing vast amounts of interconnected knowledge and information while making high-stakes decisions.
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A Nation Addicted to Sports Gambling (Pt. 2)
As many as one in four Americans will place a bet on this year’s March Madness tournament. For some, it will be the first time they place a bet using a user-friendly, totally legal, app on their phone. Companies like FanDuel and DraftKings often run “risk-free” promotions for first-time bettors.
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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.
