By The Petrie-Flom Center Post-Trial Responsibilities: Ethics and Implementation Thursday, September 18, 2014 Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East AB, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. This event is free and open to the public, but due to limited seating registration is required. Please register online. Law, policy, and guidance are vague, sometimes conflicting, and generally lacking in…
By Katherine L. Record Can there be a silver lining to a drug epidemic that is so extreme it is deemed a public health emergency? As prescription opioid (painkiller) addictions drive individuals to heroin, there just might be. Heroin use has surged recently – seizures of supply increased by nearly 70% over the last few…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has authored a new opinion piece on Bioethics.net on the issue of “chipping” human beings. From the piece: There has been a great deal of fingerpointing, second-guessing and recrimination over the decision by the President to exchange five former Taliban leaders for the American soldier, Bowe Bergdahl. “You’ve just released five extremely dangerous people,…
By Allison K. Hoffman In the U.S., the right to health is often held up as a utopian legal principle that other countries manage to embrace and that we shortsightedly spurn. What I learned working on a new project is that the right to health does not always lend itself to admirable ends. In some…
By Michele Goodwin In mid-April, Boko Haram, an extremist organization operating in the northern region of Nigeria, kidnapped nearly 300 girls from their boarding school in Borno. Kidnappers threatened that the girls would be sold to sex trafficking rings in neighboring countries, causing international alarm. In the weeks since that mass kidnapping, world leaders…
By Cansu Canca The video “Who Pays the Price? The Human Cost of Electronics” recently went viral on social media. It purports to document the suffering of former workers of Chinese electronics factories that supply smartphones to big brands. According to the video, these workers contracted serious occupational illnesses such as cancer and severe nerve damage…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece up at NBC News on the increasing use of condoms as evidence of a crime by police in the United States. From the article: Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to public health? The latest example of what not to do in the…
By The Petrie-Flom Center “The Right to Life and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights” When: March 5, 2014, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Where: Wasserstein Hall 3007, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Please join us for a brown bag talk with Professor Paola Bergallo, Faculty of Law, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, and HRP Visiting Fellow. Bergallo…
High hopes for overcoming the HIV epidemic rest to a large extent on HIV Treatment-as-Prevention (TasP). Large cluster-randomized controlled trials are currently under way to test the effectiveness of different TasP strategies in general populations in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, however, international antiretroviral treatment (ART) guidelines have already moved to definitions of ART…
By The Petrie-Flom Center “Transgender Identity, Mental Health, and Human Rights: The DSM-5 and Beyond” When: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Where: Hauser 102 Please join us for a discussion with panelists: Sara Kimmel, staff psychologist at Harvard University Student Mental Health Services; Eszter Kismödi, international human rights lawyer on sexual and reproductive health law, policy, and research;…
