By Arthur Caplan Weighing in on Question 2, Massachusetts’ ballot initiative on physician-assisted suicide, Art Caplan says we should vote “yes”: Mass. should legalize physician-assisted suicide Of the numerous ballot initiatives that will be decided at…
By Michele Goodwin Penn State’s former president, Graham Spanier, is the latest person to be charged in the fallout involving Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of boys on the Penn State campus. A year ago, I…
By Katie Kraschel Mitt Romney’s anecdote about the binders of women he relied upon in selecting members of his cabinet when he was Governor has fueled criticism from feminist groups and filled my Facebook feed with…
by Jonathan J. Darrow Until recently, most ordinary people had never heard of “pharmacy compounding.” Then, a number of deaths and illnesses caused by a drug that was compounded in a Framingham, Massachusetts pharmacy propelled…
By Scott Burris Kathy Ward is a veteran public health worker in Nebraska. She has a neat idea, which I summarize here in mostly her words: Public health policy needs more proponents who are knowledgeable…
Friday, November 2, 2012 8:30am – 6:30pm (reception to follow) Milstein Conference Rooms, 2nd Floor Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA The Petrie-Flom Center and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics will be co-sponsoring a day-long…
We’re pleased to introduce and welcome Susannah Rose to our blogging community as a regular contributor.
By The Petrie-Flom Center On behalf of our colleagues at Harvard Law School’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, we wanted to let you know about the following event: Massachusetts: A Community Approach to…
By Erin Talati As Holly Lynch describes in her recent post, the upcoming election brings a number of bioethics questions directly to the public. Two of the three ballot questions in Massachusetts invite discussion and…
Obamacare on Trial Book talk and panel discussion by Einer Elhauge, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (and founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center) Panelists: I. Glenn Cohen, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law…
