By Emily Largent Although many lament that the ubiquity of smartphones has contributed to a recent decline in etiquette, a study published this week in Science suggests that smartphones’ ubiquity may make them a valuable–if surprising–tool for studying modern morality. Most moral judgment experiments are lab-based and driven by hypotheticals. By contrast, this was a field experiment that focused on the moral judgments people make…
By Rebecca Haffajee In this week’s issue of New England Journal of Medicine, Michelle Mello, Wendy Parmet, and I write about what constitutes — or should constitute — a “public health emergency”. The law provides for emergency declarations, which suspend ordinary legal standards and processes in order to avoid catastrophe, on many levels (international, federal,…
By Katie Kraschel The national press is buzzing after TMZ released a video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice’s barbaric assault of his then-fiancee, Janay Rice. Much of the spotlight of the coverage shined on the NFL’s handling of the abuse, and perhaps even more time was spent yesterday questioning Ms. Rice’s decision to stay…
A Conversation with the HHS Office of the Inspector General Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a conversation with the Boston office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Office…
As we gear up for a second year of exchange marketplace enrollment, one issue to keep an eye on is the success we have at getting people who live in rural areas onto the healthcare rolls. As pointed out in today’s Kaiser Health News write-up (here), there is potential for the ACA to increase rural…
Check out the September 5th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics.
By Christopher Robertson This single webpage (Vox) covers about 80% of what I try to convey during the first day of my health law class. And the page does it with some nice graphics, which are worth stealing (ahem, “fair using” for educational purposes). While nothing will be new to health policy scholars, it is a nice…
By Dov Fox The Guardian and L.A. Times are the latest major news organizations to decry trans-Atlantic restrictions on blood donation by men who have sex with men (MSM). The case against such categorical bans has been reignited by an influential piece that Bill of Health editor Glenn Cohen recently published with co-authors Jeremy Feigenbaum and Eli Adashi in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Cohen,…
Post-Trial Responsibilities: Ethics and Implementation Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. The conference is free and open to the public, but due to limited seating, registration is required to attend. Please register here. The term “post-trial access” is used broadly to…
By Nicolas Terry On September 9 Apple is hosting its ‘Wish We Could Say More’ event. In the interim we will be deluged with usually uninformed speculation about the new iPhone, an iWatch wearable, and who knows what else. What we do know, because Apple announced it back in June, is that iOS 8, Apple’s mobile…
