Events by Academic Year: 2014-2015
Visible Solutions: How Neuroimaging Helps Law Re-envision Pain
Description Can brain imaging be a “pain-o-meter” that tells courts when a person is in pain? Can fMRI help us discern whether intractable chronic pain is “all…
Petrie-Flom / Center for Bioethics Reception at ASLME 38th Annual Health Law Professors Conference
Come learn more about the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School at this jointly-hosted…
2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America
Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Conference Description Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly…
After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar's, What Is God's?
Couldn't join us in person? Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth Pre-Conference Session As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,…
Documentary Screening: Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
This screening of the award-winning documentary Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story was followed by discussion on reducing waste. Panelists: Jen Rustemeyer, Producer Grant Baldwin, Producer Moderator: Emily Broad…
Health Law Workshop: Rachel E. Sachs
Presentation Topic: "Rethinking the Incentives/Access Dichotomy: Prescription Drug Reimbursement as Innovation Incentive." This paper is not available for download. To request a copy, please contact Jennifer Minnich…
FDA’s Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation: A lecture by Neil Flanzraich
Neil Flanzraich, Chairman and CEO of Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., discussed the balance between speed and safety in FDA’s regulation of pharmaceutical products. Topics included how FDA’s…
Moral Decisions in the Law: What's the Brain Got to Do with It?
Law – particularly criminal law – is infused with moral judgment and calls upon prosecutors, judges, and and jurors to make morally-informed decisions. But where does morality come from? How…
Health Law Workshop: Thomas Greaney
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Medicare Advantage, Accountable Care Organizations, and Traditional Medicare: Synchronization or Collision?" About the Presenter Thomas L. Greaney is Chester A. Myers Professor of Law…
King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act
Couldn't attend in person? Check out posts from several of our speakers responding to the Supreme Court's decision in the case, on the Health Affairs Blog. Links to…
Does Brain Difference Affect Legal and Moral Responsibility?
Brains create behavior. Yet we hold people, not brains, morally and legally responsible for their actions. Under what conditions could - or should - brain disorder affect the ways in…
Just Food?: Forum on Justice in the Food System
A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice in the food system. Just Food? explored the legal, policy, health, and environmental aspects of modern domestic and international…
Health Law Workshop: Liran Einav
Presentation Download the Presentation: "The Response of Drug Expenditure to Non-Linear Contract Design: Evidence from Medicare Part D" (co-authors, Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf) About the Presenter Liran…
Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically
Program We often talk, in bioethics, about individual autonomy. Yet our most challenging ethical, legal and clinical controversies in health care often center around family roles and responsibilities: How should…
Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach is an edited volume that grew out of the 2012 conference "Identified versus Statistical Lives: Ethics and Public Policy," cosponsored by the…
Gender (Re)assignment: Legal, Ethical, and Conceptual Issues
Couldn't join us? Watch the available talks and the full Q & A online! Trans and intersex individuals face a series of legal, medical, and social challenges. This panel…
Health Law Workshop: Nadia Sawicki
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Modernizing Informed Consent: Expanding the Boundaries of Materiality" About the Presenter Nadia A. Sawicki is Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School…
The Policeman at the Elbow: The Neuroscience of Addiction, Self-Control, and Criminal Responsibility
Couldn't join us? Watch the full event online! Do criminal penalties have any deterrent effect on drug addicts - people who already are willing to throw away their jobs,…
Health Law Workshop: Robert Truog
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Defining Death: Getting It Wrong for All the Right Reasons" About the Presenter Robert D. Truog is Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology & Pediatrics…
Harvard Food+ Research Symposium
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs was pleased to announce the first Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (or as we call it,…