Bioethics
A Question of Insurance Fraud?
By Scott Burris No, I mean it: this is a question to Bill of Health readers who know about the law on this topic. This week, a colleague handed me a palm card she’d been…
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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
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Introductions
Introducing Nikola Biller-Andorno
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 been deputy editor of…
Introducing Nikola Biller-Andorno
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Adriana Benedict
Innovative Approaches to Pharmaceutical Innovation: Alternative R&D Mechanisms
by Adriana Lee Benedict Earlier this year, the World Health Organization’s Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG) issued a report calling for, inter alia, increased support for innovative pharmaceutical…
Innovative Approaches to Pharmaceutical Innovation: Alternative R&D Mechanisms
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Doctor-Patient Relationship
The Fallacy of Fearing “Industrialized” Medicine
By Patrick O’Leary Looking back over last month’s health-related news, two articles published on The Atlantic’s website stand out to illustrate a tension that has received a great deal of focus in Medicare reform circles,…
The Fallacy of Fearing “Industrialized” Medicine
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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
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Bioethics
Social Inequality in Clinical Research
by Suzanne M. Rivera, PhD For a variety of reasons, racial and ethnic minorities in the US do not participate in clinical research in numbers proportionate to their representation in the population. Although legitimate mistrust by…
Social Inequality in Clinical Research
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Bioethics
Upcoming Event: “Office and Responsibility – A Symposium in Honor of Professor Dennis Thompson”
Our colleagues at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Department of Government, and the FAS Dean’s Office at Harvard are sponsoring an exciting event next Thursday and Friday, October 11-12, 2012, in honor…
Upcoming Event: “Office and Responsibility – A Symposium in Honor of Professor Dennis Thompson”
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2012 Election
Taking Liberties (and Libertarians) Seriously
By Abby Moncrieff First, an uncontroversial statement: Despite academics’ resistance, libertarian arguments played a huge role in the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision. That seems obvious. Chief Justice Roberts and the four dissenters based their Commerce…
Taking Liberties (and Libertarians) Seriously
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Abortion
“The New Normal” and Reproductive Technology and the Law
Inspired in part by attending the “Baby Markets Roundtable” (an annual gathering of reproductive technology and the law scholars) this week at Indiana Bloomington, I wanted to share a few thoughts on the new NBC…
“The New Normal” and Reproductive Technology and the Law