The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School hosted a welcome reception at PRIM&R’s 2014 Advancing Ethical Research Conference as a gathering place for scholars doing bioethics and policy work at Harvard and others in the broader research ethics community. The reception was a great opportunity to discuss the…
I. Glenn Cohen‘s new book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014) is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Examining both the legal and ethical issues raised by medical tourism and how the two interact, it provides the best currently available data and explanations of the…
Presentation Download the Presentation Topic Paper: “More Insurers Lower Premiums: Evidence from Initial Pricing in the Health Insurance Marketplaces” (co-authors, Jonathan Gruber and Christopher Ody) About the Presenter Leemore S. Dafny is a Professor of Management and Strategy and the Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services at the Kellogg School of Management…
The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a discussion of the issues surrounding noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a screening method for detecting certain specific chromosomal abnormalities, as well as sex, in utero. NIPT may help mothers avoid other tests that could put their pregnancies at risk, but the ability to detect substantial information about a developing fetus with…
A screening of the documentary Can We See the Baby Bump, Please?, which was followed by a panel discussion of the legal and human rights issues surrounding surrogacy and egg donation in a global context. Attendees were encouraged to read Risk Disclosure and the Recruitment of Oocyte Donors: Are Advertisers Telling the Full Story? prior…
Presentation Download the Presentation Topic Paper: “Regulating Identity: Medical Regulation as Social Control“ About the Presenter Matt Lamkin is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He previously was a Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences. Prior to entering academia, he was in private practice…
The Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law and The Food Law Lab at Harvard Law School partnered to host the UCLA-Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Conference, a joint annual conference which will focus on transparency issues in the food system from a legal perspective. The first of…
Documentary Synopsis Everything we’ve been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong. Fed Up is the film the food industry doesn’t want you to see. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth) and director Stephanie Soechtig, Fed Up will change the way you eat…
MIT Press recently published Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (2014), co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director, I. Glenn Cohen, and Executive Director, Holly Fernandez Lynch. This edited volume stems from the Center’s 2012 annual conference, which brought together leading experts in a conversation about whether and how the current system of human…
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Food and Drug Law Institute were pleased to announce this collaborative academic symposium. Agenda 8:00 – 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 8:40 AM FDLI, PFC Welcome Remarks 8:40 – 9:35 AM Food Regulation “Untangling the Debat…
