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 exception itself. He addressed the self-defense exception briefly: “Through the well-known doctrine of self-defense, the criminal law has long recognized…
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 is available online, here. The chapter focuses on access to drugs in less developed countries (LDCs), and makes the following…
By The Petrie-Flom Center 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 Kinship in Transplants (Contemporary Ethnography) Marie-Andree Jacob
[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 charging that unsuspecting children were put at risk in a “dangerous” study of genetically engineered rice in rural China. It’s a…
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 on?
By Arthur Caplan 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 emphasize both patient autonomy and preserving the ability of health care professionals to provide care in humane…
The Petrie-Flom Center will be co-sponsoring this lecture by Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, on his recent book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets published earlier this year. A question and answer period with Prof. Sandel and a small reception will immediately…
By I. Glenn Cohen Last week, as I mentioned before, Judge Wolf (D. Mass) ruled that Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison, was entitled to the sex re-assignment surgery that the Department of Corrections’ doctor ordered as the treatment…
[on behalf of Art Caplan] Art Caplan has an interesting new podcast on autonomy, the elderly, and sex. He argues that clinicians ought to be promoting – or at least discussing – sex among nursing home residents, and how to make appropriate accommodations. Take a listen (free sign-in required).
By Erin Talati In the intensive care unit, almost every decision can be made into life or death. For some children whose parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses the need for a blood transfusion becomes quite literally a life or death decision. As clinicians, we struggle with maintaining a relationship with the family, while advocating for what…
