Allison M. Whelan, J.D. Senior Fellow, Center for Biotechnology &Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of Law Guest Blogger A legislative advisory committee is set to present an amended bill to the Minnesota State Legislature this session that raises the standard of care provided to incarcerated pregnant women in Minnesota prisons. The amendment…
By Emily Largent This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and this semester, I have been fortunate enough to take a class on the Civil Rights Movement with Professor Randall Kennedy. This has prompted me to examine the influence of race on healthcare delivery in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. Racism infected all…
Join us for an important public forum: Constitutional Implications of Ebola: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights In Times of Health Crises This public forum addresses the constitutional and public health implications of Ebola response in the United States. According to state and federal laws, patient information is deemed private and is to be held in…
By Deborah Cho I was excited to learn of an article in a recent issue of American Family Physician on the topic of caring for Asian American patients. The contents of the article are worth a read (most of it is available here), but it generally states that medical providers should consider the Asian American health…
By Michele Goodwin In the wake of another health care worker contracting Ebola, alarm bells are ringing. Last week, President Obama abruptly cancelled a campaign stop to Rhode Island to hold press conferences where he promised that federal authorities are “taking this very seriously at the highest levels of government.” Despite Obama’s assurances that the…
Check out Dov Fox‘s new op-ed on racial sorting in family formation over at Huffington Post: Reproducing Race. The piece was prompted by this week’s news of the white lesbian mother who sued a sperm bank for mixing up the sample she ordered with that from a black donor. The impulse to call one’s mixed-race…
By Dov Fox New technologies can put pressure on the logic of the law. Consider the well-settled legal conclusion that equal protection rights don’t apply when police use race-based descriptions to look for suspects. An emerging forensic technique called DNA phenotyping makes it hard to defend this reliance on racial proxies–rather than appearance itself–in the investigation…
By Michelle Meyer In late May, I wrote the following: Yesterday, the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, an international consortium that pools and conducts social science research on existing genome-wide association study (GWAS) data, and on whose Advisory Board I sit, published (online ahead of print) the results of its first study in Science. That…
Harvard’s student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, covered last week’s Petrie-Flom event on “Patient Discrimination against Medical Personnel” featuring Kimani Paul-Emile of Fordham Law School. You can read the full article here. Video of the full event is also available online.
If you weren’t able to join us for the panel discussion of “Patient Discrimination against Medical Personnel” on September 17, 2013, featuring Kimani Paul-Emile (Fordham Law), Renee Landers (Suffolk Law), and Fidencio Saldana (Harvard Medical School), you can watch it online here.
