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 have come into conflict in the U.S. as health care has become both more secular and more heavily regulated….
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,” this pre-conference session examined the role of religion in the American public sphere. Our expert panel discussed the nature of…
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 approach has ebbed and flowed over time, the various tools FDA has introduced to reach this balance, and the potential impact of FDA’s various…
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 do we “do” moral decision-making? Eexperimental philosopher and neuroscientist Fiery Cushman delivered a fascinating and provocative discussion…
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 published posts below! This Term, in King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court considered whether the Affordable Care Act permits the government to extend tax-credit subsidies to citizens…
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 engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of these overlapping issues, including: healthcare coverage of treatments such as gender reassignment therapy, the legal…
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, relationships, or even lives for their “fix”? What does brain science tell us about addicts’ capacities to exert…
Couldn’t join us? Watch the full event online! For more on this event, check out the write-ups in the Harvard Gazette (February 27, 2015) and the Harvard Crimson (February 26, 2015)! The measles outbreak centered around Disneyland in California in early 2015 reignited the contentious debate over childhood vaccination in the United States. This discussion…
with Stephen Morse Couldn’t join us? Watch the full event online! Professor Stephen J. Morse, JD, PhD, former MacArthur Foundation Law & Neuroscience Project, discussed how – or whether – new knowledge about the brain is changing legal concepts of agency and responsibility. Moderated by Petrie-Flom Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience Professor Amanda…
A lecture by John Tasioulas Couldn’t join us? Watch the full event online! There have been recent calls to establish a framework convention on health grounded in the human right to health. But is there really a human right to health? If there is, what does it entitle us to, and how do we decide?…
