Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Co-Director I. Glenn Cohen will give the introduction for this event featuring Belinda Bennett, Professor of Health and Medical Law, University of Sydney. From its earliest stages, the themes of recognizing rights and managing risks have been constant features of health law debate. More recently, globalization has become an important theme for health law.…
By The Petrie-Flom Center This Monday at the Petrie-Flom Center’s Health Law Policy Workshop, Kimberly Krawiec of the Duke University School of Law will discuss her paper “Reverse Transplant Tourism” (click the link to download). All meetings of the workshop take place in Hauser Hall, Room 105, on the Harvard Law School campus, from 5:00…
Petrie-Flom Center faculty co-director and Bill of Health editor I. Glenn Cohen appeared on ABC’s Nightline last night, where he discussed the growing trend of medical tourism around the globe. While it all sounds too good to be true, medical experts cautioned that there are serious concerns about “medical tourism” and having procedures done overseas. Glenn…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch This afternoon the Petrie-Flom Center co-hosted a panel discussion (with the HLS Library and the Harvard Global Health Institute) of Glenn Cohen‘s new edited volume out from Oxford University Press, The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues. Panelists were Professor Cohen, Sue Goldie, and Neel Shah; Einer Elhauge served as…
By Michele Goodwin Anthony Stokes, a fifteen year old kid from Decatur County, Georgia, is expected to die in a matter of months, according to his doctors at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Maybe, they say, he will live for six months. Who knows? Anthony suffers from an enlarged, increasingly less functional heart. His condition…
Petrie-Flom faculty co-director and Bill of Health co-editor I. Glenn Cohen was interviewed last week on WBEZ’s “Worldview” about the growth of medical tourism around the world. What happens if you need surgery, but can’t afford the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to have it done locally? You might consider flying to a…
By I. Glenn Cohen [Cross-Posted at Prawfsblawg] The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics has just published an article by me on transplant tourism, that discusses the burgeoning international market for buying and selling kidneys. I review the existing data from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, which is pretty deplorable. As I show the vast majority…
By Pablo De Lora ELPAT (Ethical, Legal and Psycho-social aspects of Transplantation) is a division of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT). During the last weekend, the third ELPAT Conference has been held in Rotterdam. It has been a fascinating meeting that has gathered a group of prestigious scholars from many countries around the…
By The Petrie-Flom Center
The edited volume stemming from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2011 Annual Conference – The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, I. Glenn Cohen, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2013) – is now available for purchase through the publisher, Amazon, or other outlets. You can also download the introduction and front matter for free here. The…
