By Yoni Schenker In Glenn Cohen’s first post on this blog, he questioned whether Mitt Romney’s position on abortion was coherent with respect to the rape and incest exception, but did not question the self-defense…
By Patrick O’Leary Back in February, President Obama’s FY 2013 budget authorized $4.5 billion for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about $2 billion of which was to come from user fees, the fees paid…
By Frank Pasquale Last week, the blog Concurring Opinions featured a symposium on Madhavi Sunder’s new book, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice. A chapter relevant to health law scholars…
Over at Market Design, Al Roth has drawn our attention to two new books addressing organ markets: A Market in Organs (in Kidney Transplantation: Challenging the Future) Miran Epstein and Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and…
Here’s this week’s newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, with the latest bioethics news, scholarship, opinion, and other announcements. Take a look!
[posted on behalf of Art Caplan] Greenpeace, perhaps best known for its battles at sea to protect whales and the oceans, has gotten itself involved in a huge controversy over genetically modified food. The group is…
We’re excited to welcome Judith Daar, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Whittier Law School, as an occasional contributor to the blog.
Al Roth has linked to an ongoing debate as to whether paying for leftover human tissue used in research should be repugnant, forbidden, allowed, or mandated. Check it out here. Which side do you fall…
Our blogger Art Caplan has a fascinating new piece in The Lancet today about an elderly patient who refused to be turned in his hospital bed and died from the ensuing bed sores/infection. Art’s conclusions…
By Nicolas Terry Zack Buck, Caring Too Much: Misusing the False Claims Act to Target Overtreatment, SSRN Kevin Outterson, Punishing Health Care Fraud — Is the GSK Settlement Sufficient? NEJM Sidney A. Shapiro et al, The Truth About…
