By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By The Petrie-Flom Center More information, including registration, is available on the conference website.
By Art Caplan Are we ever capable of laying a stupid idea to rest in America? Apparently not. The latest tempest in the ever-resurrecting world of solutions to the shortage of organs is donation by executed prisoners. The Governor of Ohio held up a plan to execute a man on death row when he requested…
By I. Glenn Cohen In a week where most of the health law news has been, shall we say, less than hopeful for those of us who like the idea of robust health insurance expansion, as the Washington Blade reports there was one bright spot for progressive health policy: The House and Senate passed the HOPE (HIV…
By The Petrie-Flom Center More information, including registration, is available on the conference website.
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and health care that prevent individuals, groups,…
By Arthur Caplan Check out Art Caplan‘s new op-ed “Why Selling Kidneys Still Won’t Work” over at NBCNews: If the price was right, would you sell your kidney to someone who desperately needs a transplant? A new article by Canadian researchers argues that payment could increase the scarce supply of kidneys available for those in…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece at NBCNews.com. In “Is your doctor spying on your tweets? Social media raises medical privacy questions,” Caplan argues: Presuming doctors, their helpers or your neighbors are going to look, ethical standards or not, shouldn’t patients be told if someone does? I think so. I think the…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center has released the description and call for abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014, and seeks to address the following questions: Are there features unique to health and…
