Yale Center for Bioethics

  • Read more: Surrogacy Contracts Directly Enforcible in Pennsylvania

    Surrogacy Contracts Directly Enforcible in Pennsylvania

    By John A. Robertson Surrogacy is legal in many states.  Some, like California, directly enforce gestational carrier contracts.  Others, like Texas, Illinois, and Virginia, enforce only those contracts that are entered into by a married couple who need a surrogate for medical reasons which a judge approves before embryo transfer occurs.  A Pennsylvania court has…

  • Read more: Yale Bioethics Newsletter: 9/18/15

    Yale Bioethics Newsletter: 9/18/15

    The latest newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics is now available online. For an archive of past newsletters, please visit the Center’s website.

  • Read more: Quick, Effective Public Health Measures

    Quick, Effective Public Health Measures

    By Stephen Latham [cross-posted at his blog, A Blog on Bioethics] I’m freshly back from the annual meeting of the Public Health Law Research program, sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson. At most academic meetings, I prefer schmoozing in the halls to listening to the talks. That’s part personal vice, and part stage-of-career: at this point, it matters more who…

  • Read more: Yale Friday Newsletter – 01/11/13

    Yale Friday Newsletter – 01/11/13

    By The Petrie-Flom Center After a brief hiatus for the holidays, the Yale Friday Newsletter is back!  Enjoy below the fold (slightly edited for our readers):

  • Read more: Yale Friday Newsletter – 12/07/12

    Yale Friday Newsletter – 12/07/12

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Enjoy this week’s Friday Newsletter from Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.  As always, slightly edited for our readership.

  • Read more: Yale Friday Newsletter 11/30/12

    Yale Friday Newsletter 11/30/12

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Here’s this week’s (slightly edited) installment of the Yale Friday Newsletter.  Enjoy!

  • Read more: Yale Friday Newsletter – 11/16/12

    Yale Friday Newsletter – 11/16/12

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Here’s this week’s edition of the Yale Friday Newsletter, slightly edited for our audience.  Enjoy!

  • Read more: Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 11/02/12

    Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 11/02/12

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Sorry for the delay – the Petrie-Flom Center co-hosted a fantastic conference today on institutional financial conflicts of interest in research universities, which kept me away from a computer all day.  More to come on that, but without further ado, here is this week’s Yale Friday Newsletter, slightly modified for our…