Religion

  • Read more: TWO EVENTS THIS WEEK (5/7-5/9): “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” & “Law, Religion, and Health in America”

    TWO EVENTS THIS WEEK (5/7-5/9): “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” & “Law, Religion, and Health in America”

    Pre-Conference Session “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” May 7, 2015, 4:00 – 6:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East BC Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,” please join us for a pre-conference session examining the role of…

  • Read more: What Does Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law Mean For Health Care?

    What Does Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law Mean For Health Care?

    By Holly Fernandez Lynch This new post by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch appears on the Health Affairs Blog, as part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. By now, we’ve all heard the commotion around Indiana’s new Religious…

  • Read more: TWO Upcoming Events (5/7-5/9): “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” & “Law, Religion, and Health in America”

    TWO Upcoming Events (5/7-5/9): “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” & “Law, Religion, and Health in America”

    Pre-Conference Session “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” May 7, 2015, 4:00 – 6:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East BC Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,” please join us for a pre-conference session examining the role of…

  • Read more: TWO Upcoming Events (5/7-5/9): “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” & “Law, Religion, and Health in America”

    TWO Upcoming Events (5/7-5/9): “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” & “Law, Religion, and Health in America”

    Pre-Conference Session “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” May 7, 2015, 4:00 – 6:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East BC Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,” please join us for a pre-conference session examining the role of…

  • Read more: AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE! 2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America

    AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE! 2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America

    2015 Annual Conference – Law, Religion, and Health in America May 8 – 9, 2015 Milstein East BC Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 [Map] Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly have come into conflict in the U.S. as health care has become both more secular and…

  • Read more: Call for Abstracts: 2015 Petrie-Flom Annual Conference – Law, Religion, and American Health Care

    Call for Abstracts: 2015 Petrie-Flom Annual Conference – Law, Religion, and American Health Care

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Abstracts due next Monday, December 1, 2014: The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2015 Annual Conference: “Law, Religion, and American Health Care.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 8 and 9, 2014. This conference, and anticipated edited volume, will aim to: (1) identify the various ways…

  • Read more: Call for Abstracts: 2015 Petrie-Flom Annual Conference – Law, Religion, and American Health Care

    Call for Abstracts: 2015 Petrie-Flom Annual Conference – Law, Religion, and American Health Care

    The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2015 Annual Conference: “Law, Religion, and American Health Care.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 8 and 9, 2014. This conference, and anticipated edited volume, will aim to: (1) identify the various ways in which law intersects with religion and health care in the…

  • Read more: Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, Call for Abstracts: Law, Religion, and American Health Care

    Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, Call for Abstracts: Law, Religion, and American Health Care

    The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2015 Annual Conference: “Law, Religion, and American Health Care.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 8 and 9, 2014.   The conference seeks to address the following topics: Analysis of the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and other federal, state, and local…

  • Read more: Art Caplan: When Religion Trumps Medicine

    Art Caplan: When Religion Trumps Medicine

    By Art Caplan Cross-post from bioethics.net Imagine that you were in a terrible car accident and suffered a huge loss of blood. An ambulance comes and takes you, dazed and in pain, to the only hospital within a hundred mile area of the accident. That hospital happens to be affiliated with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Everything…

  • Read more: Who Pays? The Wage-Insurance Trade-off and Corporate Religious Freedom Claims

    Who Pays? The Wage-Insurance Trade-off and Corporate Religious Freedom Claims

    By Elizabeth Sepper Happy new year to all and thanks to the Bill of Health for the opportunity to blog this month! The first day of 2013 saw yet another ruling in the contraception coverage controversy.  And yet another private corporation—this time a real estate management company owned by the billionaire founder of Domino’s pizza—won…