TUESDAY, 9/17: Patient Discrimination against Medical Personnel
On Monday, September 16, the Petrie-Flom Center’s Health Law Policy and Bioethics Workshop will host Kimani Paul-Emile of the Fordham University School of Law. Paul-Emile’s presentation is titled “Beyond Title VII: Rethinking Race, Ex-offender Status And Employment Discrimination In The Information Age.” All meetings of the Workshop are free and open to the public. You can download Paul-Emile’s…
Bill of Health contributor Dov Fox has a new op-ed at the Huffington Post on “junk” DNA and the future of genetic privacy in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling, in Maryland v. King, that police may collect DNA from people under arrest. Fox argues, The next great controversy over forensic DNA won’t have anything to…
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…