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Please join us on February 27 at 2:00pm in Wasserstein 1019 at the Harvard Law School as we launch Professor Frances Kamm’s latest book, Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives (Oxford University…
By Jennifer S. Bard, J.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Cross-posted from HealthLawProf Blog. Originally posted January 20, 2014. What are We Learning About Brain Death from the McMath and Munoz cases? With the understanding that this is…
February 19, 2014 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall 1015 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge In the pharmaceutical industry, patents are the preeminent incentive for innovation in developing new drugs. But patents aren’t the whole story; regulatory agencies…
By Chloe Reichel 1) On February 11, the FDA will launch its “Real Cost,” anti-smoking campaign. The $115-million campaign is geared toward discouraging teenagers from smoking by emphasizing the “personally relevant” effects of smoking. 2) Lawsuits…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The latest newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics is now available online. For an archive of past newsletters, please visit the Center’s website.
By The Petrie-Flom Center The latest newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics is now available online. For an archive of past newsletters, please visit the Center’s website.
Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellow Michael J. Young has published a new piece in AJOB Neuroscience on “Ethics and Ontology in Deep Brain Stimulation.” From the article: Rapid advancements in the fields of neurology and neuroscience over…
Please join us for our second annual Health Law Year in P/Review event, co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the New England Journal of Medicine. The conference will be held in…
Kevin Outterson will join us on Monday, February 3, for the first spring meeting of the Petrie-Flom Center’s Health Law Policy Workshop. He is a Professor of Law and Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human…
By Ryan Abbott Historically, death has been a very simple and intuitive thing to understand – it occurs when someone stops breathing and their heart stops. Visually, it is a dramatic change that anyone can…
