By Michelle Meyer I’m sorry to report that Adrienne Asch, director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University and the Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics, died yesterday of cancer. A social psychologist by training (but no relation to Solomon Asch), Professor Asch’s scholarly focus was the ethical, legal, and social implications of human reproduction,…
Video of the panel discussion “Reproductive Rights around the Globe,” held at Harvard Law School on November 7, is now available via the Petrie-Flom Center’s website. The panel — cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Human Rights Program; and the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School; and the Harvard Global Health Institute — included legal experts on a variety…
By Leslie Francis At the University of Utah, our Center on Law and Biomedical Sciences was fortunate to be able to hold a recent symposium on the future of gene patenting. Our speakers included Ken Chahine and Amelia Rinehart, both faculty at the College of Law, presenting accounts of the science and patent law; Brian…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Aaron Kesselheim is a physician and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He will be speaking at the Petrie-Flom Health Law Workshop on Monday, November 18, at 5:00pm, on “Do March-In Rights Protect Public Interests in Medical Products Arising from Federally-Funded Research?” For more details on the workshop, including information…
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By Lauren A. Taylor, Coordinator for Health and Religion in the Global Context, Harvard Divinity School and co-author of The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less(PublicAffairs, 2013). Who is responsible for the stewardship of the body? What about the body’s tissue? Or its blood? While many people suggest that each individual owns…
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The Petrie-Flom Center and Harvard Law School are delighted to announce our partnership with Duke University, Stanford University, and Oxford University Press to launch a new peer-reviewed, open access, online journal in 2014: Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB). JLB will become the preeminent outlet to publish cutting-edge scholarship wherever law and the biosciences intersect. The journal…
By Nicholson Price In the second installment of our new collaboration with Genetics in Medicine, we are highlighting an article released last week discussing informed consent for the return of incidental findings in genomic research. As whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing become increasingly common in medical research, the potential grows for identifying genetic findings that are…
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