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We are so excited to welcome a new crop of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family. These six students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us…
When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health – from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records –…
We are pleased to host this symposium featuring commentary from speakers and participants of Northeastern University School of Law’s annual health law conference, Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law, organized by the…
Efforts to place the patient at the center of medical research, spurred by the Affordable Care Act’s founding of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, have begun to change the way clinical research is conceptualized…
At last week’s Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics,” discussed a number of topics related to the “mere difference” vs. “bad difference” disability theory debate. Over the course of the day, six…
2018 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics June 1, 2018 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East ABC (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA “Congress acknowledged…
Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., School Bd. of Nassau, Fl.…
2018 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and BioethicsMay 27, 2018 8:00 AM – 5:00 PMWasserstein Hall, Milstein East ABC (2036)Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA “Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated…
By Thomas W. Feeley We constantly hear that the American health care system is broken and badly in need of repair. Our system provides poor value in that our per capita spending is more than…
