News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Disability"
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Neuroscience, and Criminal Legal Capacity
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires states parties to ‘recognize that persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others…
Call for submissions! Call For Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change
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…
Video now available! Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
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…
Video now available! Exporting Mayhem: Suing Gun Manufacturers in the US to Stop Violence in Mexico
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,…
Video now available! Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America
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…
The Treatment of Disability Under Crisis Standards of Care: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Change Over Time During COVID-19
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…
Video now available! COVID-19 & Disability: A Holistic Examination of Pandemic Impact
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…
COVID-19 Clinical Bias, Persons with Disabilities, and Human Rights
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,…
Biases in the evaluation of self-harm in patients with disability due to spinal cord injury
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…
Video now available! Disability, COVID-19, and Triage: Exploring Resource Allocation and the Framing of Disability
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…
Q&A with the co-editors of the new book “Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics”
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…
Viewpoint: Potential Legal Liability for Withdrawing or Withholding Ventilators During COVID-19: Assessing the Risks and Identifying Needed Reforms
With an anticipated shortage of ventilators for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), hospitals, physicians, and nurses may have to make an unprecedented decision: should they withdraw or withhold ventilators from…
Artificial Intelligence and Disability/Dependency: Equity, Access, and Interdependence
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…
Health Law Workshop: Michael Ashley Stein: Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
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?
[...] “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…
Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
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
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
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…
Inequity in Mental Health Care Access
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…