by Jennifer Ibrahim, PhD, MPH An article by Julia Costich, MPA, JD, PhD, and Dana Patton, PhD, in the October 2012 edition of the American Journal of Public Health reveals the tip of the iceberg…
By Leslie Francis Establishment of the infrastructure needed for the efficient, accurate, and secure exchange of health information is a crucial piece of improving care in the US. Exchange fosters the ready availability of information,…
Related to the conversations we’ve been having lately on conscience, I wanted to point you to a relatively new book on the topic by Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis, Cambridge University…
Today’s the day! 12:00-1:30pm Austin Hall, Classroom 111 Harvard Law School Please join us for a special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director, Einer Elhauge. John McDonough, official…
Sorry for the late notice, but we just learned that Al Roth will be giving a talk with this title TODAY @ 3:30 at Stanford. More info here. Al has also pointed us to two relevant…
By Erin Talati In my last post, I puzzled over the boundaries of the state’s right to step in to protect the interests of children over the religious wishes of their parents, prompted by the…
by Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. One of the peculiar legacies of unethical human experimentation is an impulse to protect people from perceived research risks, even when that means interfering with the ability of potential participants to…
The Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) uses a unique historical lens to engage law students in an intensive course of study focused on contemporary legal ethics. FASPE Fellows are granted…
We have an award-winning blogger among us! Glenn Cohen’s posts on Personhood have been selected by The Post (a Green Bag-related entity) as among the best law blog posts of the past six months. The posts…
By Michele Goodwin In recent months, women’s reproduction has been in the spotlight. A few weeks ago, the Republican Party adopted an anti-abortion platform calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion and making no exception…
