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Call for submissions! Call For Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change

Deadline: December 17, 2022
Chloe Reichel

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – SYMPOSIUM ON DISABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law School Project on…

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Video now available! Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

April 05, 2022
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View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #HealthJusticeAm. Watch the fully captioned event recording Read the event coverage:  Jonathan A. Cosgrove and Tarah D. Gilles, "Legal Experts Discuss…

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Video now available! Exporting Mayhem: Suing Gun Manufacturers in the US to Stop Violence in Mexico

February 17, 2022
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View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #ExportingMayhem. Watch the fully captioned event recording. Event Description In 2021, the Mexican government filed a ground-breaking suit in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts,…

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Video now available! Countering COVID-19 Misinformation: The Impact on Health Care Providers

February 02, 2022
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Join the conversation and submit questions on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #AgainstMisinfo. Watch the fully captioned event video. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked debates about a number of public…

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Video now available! Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America

October 08, 2021
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View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #DisabilityLatAm. Watch the fully captioned event video. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic battered the Latin American region, and has exacted a disproportionate toll…

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The Treatment of Disability Under Crisis Standards of Care: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Change Over Time During COVID-19

Ari Ne’eman, Michael Ashley Stein (Affiliated Faculty), Zackary D. Berger, and Doron Dorfman
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law

Context: COVID-19 has prompted debates between bioethicists and disability activists over Crisis Standards of Care plans (CSCs), triage protocols determining the allocation of scarce lifesaving care. Methods: We examine CSCs…

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Video now available! COVID-19 & Disability: A Holistic Examination of Pandemic Impact

March 09, 2021
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View the conversation on Twitter at @PetrieFlom using #COVIDdisability. View the fully captioned event recording. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate effects on the lives of persons with…

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COVID-19 Clinical Bias, Persons with Disabilities, and Human Rights

Omar Sultan Haque and Michael Ashley Stein (Affiliated Faculty)
Health and Human Rights Journal

Persons with disabilities have historically been discriminated against by society, including fulfilment of the right to equal access to health care.[1] The more egregious practices, historically as well as today,…

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Biases in the evaluation of self-harm in patients with disability due to spinal cord injury

Maggi A. Budd, Omar Sultan Haque, and Michael Ashley Stein (Affiliated Faculty)
Spinal Cord Series and Cases

Introduction Suicide is a global problem and accurate assessment of risk for self-harm is critical. Even morally principled clinicians can manifest bias when assessing self-harm in patients with physical disabilities…

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Video now available! Disability, COVID-19, and Triage: Exploring Resource Allocation and the Framing of Disability

April 14, 2020
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Online Resources Couldn't join the webinar? Learn more about the issues. Check out some scholarship from our panelists. Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #disabilitycovidtriage! Watch fully captioned video…

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Q&A with the co-editors of the new book “Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics”

Q&A with Michael Ashley Stein, Carmel Shachar (Executive Director), I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Cambridge University Press

From the Article Novel artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being introduced at an accelerating pace and they can, generally, be helpful tools for individuals. However, there has been little consideration…

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Artificial Intelligence and Disability/Dependency: Equity, Access, and Interdependence

March 24, 2020
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Online Viewing Couldn't join us for the live webstream? Join the conversation on Twitter with #AIanddisability, and check out the speakers' slide presentations below! You can also watch the…

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Health Law Workshop: Michael Ashley Stein: Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics

November 25, 2019

Please note the change of location for this session. This is a joint session with Professor Stein's course on "Disability, Human Rights, and Development." Presentation Presentation: Disability, Health, Law,…

If Power Outages Are California’s New Normal, What About Home Medical Needs?

Mark Kreidler
Kaiser Health News

[...] “That is the real travesty of this PG&E plan,” said Sandy Jay, a nurse practitioner at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in Sonoma County, about 130 miles southwest…

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Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics

I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Anita Silvers, and Michael Ashley Stein, editors
Cambridge University Press

This edited volume is based on the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2018 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to construct a twenty-first century conception of disablement that resolves the tension…

Call for Papers: Disability and Ethics, Bioethica Forum

Deadline: October 01, 2019
Angela Martin

Minerva Rivas

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From the call: The widely ratified United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities lists the rights of disabled individuals and prohibits any discrimination on the basis of…

Call for Applications: Disability History Association Mentorship Program

Deadline: August 19, 2019
Jaipreet Virdi

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From the description: The DHA Mentorship Program aims to match volunteer mentors with students who are either pursuing a graduate degree in the same subfield of history or who have…

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Social participation and inclusion of ex-combatants with disabilities in Colombia

by Minerva Rivas Velarde (Visiting Scholar), Karim Del Rocio, Garzon Diazb, Tom Shakespeare
Disability and the Global South

From the abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore ex-combatants’ understandings of disability and the pathways for social reintegration available to them in Colombia. The qualitative data…

Inequity in Mental Health Care Access

February 20, 2019

This panel discussed the many local and national hurdles to mental health care access and equity. How do the barriers to mental health care impact people of different backgrounds and…

Digital Health @ Harvard Series: Medicaid Work Requirements: Limitations in Digitally Identifying Individuals for Exemption Due to Disability

October 16, 2018
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Description This year, several states applied for and received permission from the federal government to implement work requirements in their Medicaid programs. Policy designs vary by state, but all states…

2018 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics

June 1, 2018
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Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides here! "Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as…

Call For Papers: Intersections of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies, The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

Deadline: June 01, 2018
Alan Santinele Martino

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General Description This special issue builds on an emergent body of scholarship located at the intersection of critical disability studies & critical animal studies, shedding light on…

Valuations of Life: Birth defects, prenatal diagnoses, and disability, Uppsala University, Sweden

Deadline: June 01, 2018
Helena Franzén

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General Description: Definitions of what counts as a valuable life implicitly and explicitly saturate both historical and contemporary narratives about birth defects, prenatal diagnoses, and disability. The aim of this…

Enabling Disability Rights in the U.S. and around the World

March 19, 2018

Professor Michael Stein is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. An internationally acclaimed expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the…

Call for Papers - New Perspectives in Deaf History

Deadline: March 01, 2018
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General Description: This call for papers is for a multi-volume series, with one volume focusing on the histories of deaf people outside the United States and at least one volume…

Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

December 12, 2017
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Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #healthlawpreview2018 and some of our speakers' slide presentations below! Description The Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review…

Call for Submissions: Special Issue “Genetic Discrimination and the Law”, Laws

Deadline: February 05, 2018
Dr. Aisling De Paor, Guest Editor

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Description Genetic science and technology are advancing at a fast pace, with scientists continuing to make genetic discoveries with respect to the make-up of the human body, and the cause…

Health Law Workshop: Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

November 21, 2016

Presentation Download the presentation materials: "Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law" Jessica L. Roberts and Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, "Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law" book proposal Jessica L.…

Football Players Health Study at Harvard University

June 3, 2016

Part of the 39th Annual ASLME Health Law Professors Conference. In order to attend this panel, you must register for the conference. Panelists will discuss the research being conducted at…

Canaries in the Coal Mine: People with Disabilities and Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis

February 22, 2016
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A lecture by Tom Shakespeare About the Speaker Tom Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer at Norwich Medical School, the University of East Anglia. From his website: My primary research interests are…

Neuroethics Seminar: Plugged-In Patients: Brain-Computer Interfaces

December 3, 2015
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Event Description This event was free and open to the public. Twitter: Follow @HMSbioethics on Twitter and join the conversation using #neuroethx Connecting the human brain to a computer is…

Health Law Workshop: Matt Lamkin

November 3, 2014

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…

Frances Kamm’s Bioethical Prescriptions: Book Talk and Panel Discussion

February 24, 2014
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We hosted this book talk and panel discussion for Professor Frances Kamm's latest book, Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives (Oxford University Press, December 2013). The book…

“Through Deaf Eyes”: a Film Screening and Discussion

February 5, 2010

The Petrie-Flom Center partnered with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability to screen selected portions of the PBS documentary film Through Deaf Eyes which explores the nearly 200 year history…

Health Law, HIV/AIDS Policy and Disability Rights in the New Administration

2009-2010

Jeff Crowley, the White House Director of National AIDS Policy and Senior Advisor on Disability Policy, visited Harvard Law School to speak about the Obama Administration’s agendas for…