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…
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!
[Ed. Note: We have a few weekly round-ups available here at Bill of Health (from Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and from Nic Terry‘s list of what’s worth reading each week), but we’ll give you…
By Nicolas Terry Chris Robertson, The Split Benefit: The Painless Way to Put Skin Back in the Healthcare Game, SSRN/Cornell Law Review Ellen Nolte & C. Martin McKee, In Amenable Mortality—Deaths Avoidable Through Health Care—Progress In The…
Ok, so we’ll have a NEJM-heavy day today! But you’ve got to check out one more thing, statements from the presidential candidates on the future of American health care. This was the topic of a hugely…
Our friends over at the New England Journal of Medicine just alerted us to a new perspectives piece addressing the impact of cutting family planning funds in Texas (the piece was also picked up by Politico).…
by Wendy Parmet It’s easy to see the value of including scientists in public health law research teams; most public health lawyers lack the training to conduct rigorous empirical research. It may be harder to…
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…
This Monday, October 1, 2012 @ 6PM, our friends at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School are hosting a panel on Health Care in 2013: Why the Race for the Presidency Matters.…
By Nadia N. Sawicki In 2010, Illinois issued an administrative rule requiring that pharmacies dispense all lawfully prescribed drugs, including emergency contraception, or face sanctions. Last week, an Illinois appellate court in Morr-Fitz v. Quinn…
