Past Events

Presentation Topic: Fetal Protection Laws: Moral Panic & The New Constitutional Battlefront (Michele Goodwin) This paper is not available for download.

Future Directions for the NIH Public Access Policy As part of Open Access Week 2012 In 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy became a statutory mandate, requiring “that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed…

Medical Tourism, Law and Ethics Presenting as part of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series, Petrie-Flom Faculty co-Director I. Glenn Cohen discussed the growing phenomenon of medical tourism, the practice of citizens of one country traveling to seek medical care in another country. His lecture discussed the emerging legal and ethical issues brought up by the…

A View from Both Sides During this special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director Einer Elhauge, John McDonough, official surrogate of the Obama campaign and director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Oren Cass, domestic policy director…

Presentation Download Nick Bagley‘s paper: Why Medicare Reform Hasn’t Worked

The Moral Limits of Markets Professor Michael Sandel introduced his new book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, arguing that there should be norms that govern our relationship with certain goods and that markets corrupt these norms. Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at…

Presentation Download Alan Wertheimer‘s paper: Why is Consent a Requirement for Ethical Research?

Conference Description The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), titled “Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators” which proposes to substantially amend the Common Rule for the first time in twenty years. This development, as…

Presentation Allison Hoffman: Reconceptualizing the Risk of Long-Term Care This paper is not available for download.

Presentation Christopher Robertson’s paper: The Split Benefit: The Painless Way to Put Skin Back in the Healthcare Game