UPDATE, 3/1: DUE TO THE STORM THAT IS CURRENTLY AFFECTING THE EAST COAST, OUR SPEAKER MICHELLE GROMAN HAS HAD TO CANCEL HER TRAVEL FOR MONDAY, 3/3. THE EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER IN THE SPRING. CANCELED: Hot Topics at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues: Plus Q&A on Careers in Law and Bioethics!…
Please join us on February 27 at 2:00pm in Wasserstein 1019 at the Harvard Law School as we launch Professor Frances Kamm’s latest book, Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives (Oxford University Press, January 2014). The book showcases Professor Kamm’s articles on bioethics as parts of a coherent whole, with sections devoted to death and dying; early…
Please join us on February 27 at 2:00pm in Wasserstein 1019 at the Harvard Law School as we launch Professor Frances Kamm’s latest book, Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives (Oxford University Press, January 2014). The book showcases Professor Kamm’s articles on bioethics as parts of a coherent whole, with sections devoted…
By Jennifer S. Bard, J.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Cross-posted from HealthLawProf Blog. Originally posted January 20, 2014. What are We Learning About Brain Death from the McMath and Munoz cases? With the understanding that this is one of those topics that health law professors are supposed to know something about, here is a quick update of…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new piece at NBC News online arguing that the Rhode Island Department of Health is right to propose a new policy mandating that “all children between 6 months and 5 years of age would have to be vaccinated against the flu before entering daycare or preschool.” From the piece:…
By Michelle Meyer For those closely following the litigation over this clinical trial, a few updates. On January 22, the district court ruled on defendants’ motions to dismiss plaintiffs’ third amended complaint. That complaint named as defendants the director of the IRB, the chair of the IRB, the other members of the IRB (“the IRB…
By Michelle Meyer This is post is part of The Bioethics Program’s ongoing Online Symposium on the Munoz and McMath cases, which I’ve organized, and is cross-posted from the symposium. To see all symposium contributions, in reverse chronological order, click here. Had the hospital not relented and removed the ventilator from Marlise Munoz’s body, could…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives By Frances M. Kamm, Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Philosophy in the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow alumna This book is a collection of Frances M. Kamm‘s articles on bioethics, which have…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Additional information and registration available online. The neonatal SUPPORT trial, which randomized extremely low birth weight infants to lower or higher levels of oxygen saturation as part of their ventilator management raised ethical issues that are turning out to be among the most controversial topics in research ethics in many years.
By Arthur Caplan Bill of Health Contributor Art Caplan has a new opinion piece online at MedScape: “YOUR Fault if Your Unvaccinated Child Makes Someone Sick.” (Note: Registration to access MedScape is free.) Are you doing enough to make sure that your patients and their kids are getting vaccinated? Sometimes we leave this for the…
