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  • Bioethics

    Some Thoughts on Sandel’s “What Money Can’t Buy”

    By Cansu Canca Last Wednesday, I went to Michael Sandel’s lecture introducing his new book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. His talk focused on two main arguments: There should be certain…

    Some Thoughts on Sandel’s “What Money Can’t Buy”

  • Bioethics

    To Tell or Not to Tell: Should Researchers Contact Anonymous Donors to Help Them?

    By Cansu Canca A recent New York Times article drew attention to an issue with increasing importance as technology develops. Gene samples collected under conditions of anonymity reveal more and more information that may be…

    To Tell or Not to Tell: Should Researchers Contact Anonymous Donors to Help Them?

  • Empirical

    MA Health Reform and Medical Debt – Getting the Facts Straight

    by Rebecca Haffajee  Earlier this week, the Boston Globe reported that medical debt is still a problem in Massachusetts, with scant change since the implementation of health reform legislation in 2006. Specifically, the article reports…

    MA Health Reform and Medical Debt – Getting the Facts Straight

  • Health Care Reform

    Call for Abstracts: ACA Book

    By The Petrie-Flom Center We’ll occasionally be posting event announcements here, as well as calls for papers, etc. that are likely to be of interest to our readership.  Speaking of which, one such announcement came…

    Call for Abstracts: ACA Book