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Michelle N. Meyer

  • Bioethics

    Would Marlise Munoz’s Fetus Have Survived? Should It Have?

    By Michelle Meyer This is post is part of The Bioethics Program’s ongoing Online Symposium on the Munoz and McMath cases, which I’ve organized, and is cross-posted from the symposium. To see all symposium contributions,…

    Would Marlise Munoz’s Fetus Have Survived? Should It Have?

  • Bioethics

    Online Symposium on Munoz and McMath Cases

    By Michelle Meyer UPDATE: Following Friday’s court order (discussed below), the hospital today (Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014) removed the ventilator from Marlise Munoz, who has met the criteria for brain death since Nov. 28, 2013.…

    Online Symposium on Munoz and McMath Cases

  • Bioethics

    My Comments on HHS’s Proposed Rule Criminalizing Trade in Blood Stem Cells

    By Michelle Meyer Bonjour de Toulouse, where I’m visiting this month at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAST), which is hosted by the Université de Toulouse Capitole and physically (and in many senses conceptually) situated…

    My Comments on HHS’s Proposed Rule Criminalizing Trade in Blood Stem Cells

  • Bioethics

    In Memoriam: Adrienne Asch

    By Michelle Meyer I’m sorry to report that Adrienne Asch, director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University and the Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics, died yesterday of cancer. A social psychologist…

    In Memoriam: Adrienne Asch

  • Health Care Finance

    New Blog, “ACA Death Spiral,” by Houston Law’s Seth Chandler

    By Michelle Meyer In case the title of the blog doesn’t make its thrust clear, here’s a snippet from Seth’s opening post: This blog is going to chronicle what I believe will be the implosion…

    New Blog, “ACA Death Spiral,” by Houston Law’s Seth Chandler

  • Bioethics

    HHS Proposes Rule to Amend NOTA, Nullify Flynn v. Holder

    By Michelle Meyer On October 2, in the midst of the government shutdown—either HHS somehow managed to convince itself that the rule was “necessary for the protection of life” or, more likely, it had already…

    HHS Proposes Rule to Amend NOTA, Nullify Flynn v. Holder

  • Clinical Research

    The Troubled Peer Review System, the Open Access Wars, & the Blurry Line Between Human Subjects Research & Investigative Journalism

    By Michelle Meyer Legal academics who work across disciplines sometimes find themselves in the uncomfortable position of explaining to their stunned colleagues the process by which second- and third-year law students, armed with author c.v.s,…

    The Troubled Peer Review System, the Open Access Wars, & the Blurry Line Between Human Subjects Research & Investigative Journalism

  • Empirical

    (Taboo) Science, Policy & the Importance of Good Science Communication: Redux

    By Michelle Meyer In late May, I wrote the following: Yesterday, the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, an international consortium that pools and conducts social science research on existing genome-wide association study (GWAS) data, and…

    (Taboo) Science, Policy & the Importance of Good Science Communication: Redux

  • Clinical Research

    Ethical Concerns, Conduct and Public Policy for Re-Identification and De-identification Practice: Part 3 (Re-Identification Symposium)

    This post is part of Bill of Health’s symposium on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identification Demonstrations. Background on the symposium is here. You can call up all of the symposium contributions by clicking…

    Ethical Concerns, Conduct and Public Policy for Re-Identification and De-identification Practice: Part 3 (Re-Identification Symposium)