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  • Bioethics

    Upcoming Event – Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

    Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:00pm Radcliffe Gymnasium 18 Mason Street Cambridge, MA Please join us for a presentation of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series. Bill of Health Co-Editor I. Glenn Cohen will discuss the growing phenomenon…

    Upcoming Event – Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

  • Announcements

    Introducing Nikola Biller-Andorno

    By The Petrie-Flom Center We’re pleased to introduce and welcome Nikola Biller-Adorno to our blogging community as an occasional contributor. Nikola  directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has…

    Introducing Nikola Biller-Andorno

  • Bioethics

    TOMORROW: Glenn Cohen on Action Speaks! Diamond v. Chakrabarty

    Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 3 at 5:30 pm, Bill of Health co-editor I. Glenn Cohen will participate in a live national broadcast on Actionspeaksradio.org regarding Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the 1980 case that first established the right to patent life. For information…

    TOMORROW: Glenn Cohen on Action Speaks! Diamond v. Chakrabarty

  • Weekly Round-Up

    Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 09/28/12

    By The Petrie-Flom Center I’m starting to mark the passage of time by how quickly the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics Friday Newsletter seems to sneak into my mailbox.  Enjoy this week’s version!

    Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 09/28/12

  • Bioethics

    More (or less) on Male Circumcision

    Thanks to Pablo de Lora for pointing us to a new article from Bijan Fateh-Moghadam on the Cologne decision regarding male circumcision. From the article’s conclusion: Summing up, the Cologne Judgment misjudges the constitutional framework of…

    More (or less) on Male Circumcision

  • Events

    Reminder, TODAY – Health Care Reform: A View from Both Sides

    Today’s the day! 12:00-1:30pm Austin Hall, Classroom 111 Harvard Law School Please join us for a special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director,  Einer Elhauge.  John McDonough, official…

    Reminder, TODAY – Health Care Reform: A View from Both Sides