Boston Review, October 5, 2017 by Frances Kamm (Senior Fellow Alumna)
From the article: We are now seeing projects directed at the general public asking people to consider how they would like to plan for their demise. Such projects can be very worthwhile, since thinking…
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Journal of Medical Ethics, September 2017, Vol. 43 No. 9 by Frances Kamm (former Senior Fellow)
From the article (from the commentary on Frances Kamm's earlier article, "Advanced Care and End of Life Care: Some Cautionary Suggestions." I thank the commentators for their consideration of my views…
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Journal of Medical Ethics, February 7, 2017 (online) by Frances Kamm (former Senior Fellow)
Abstract: This article considers some clinical and population level approaches to advanced care of chronic conditions and end of life care. One approach aims to follow patient values and preferences about…
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In Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Global Views on Choosing to End Life (Michael J. Cholbi, ed.), Praeger, 2017 (forthcoming) by I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures. Euthanasia was…
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Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, November 3, 2016, 4:30 - 6pm
2016 George W. Gay Lecture Religion, Medicine, and Law: Can Current Conflicts Be Healed?Martha MinowMorgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Thursday, November 3, 2016,…
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From the article: It’s best for patients and for physicians for people to get care from clinicians that willingly provide it, said Holly Fernandez Lynch, a bioethics researcher at Harvard University…
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Harvard Gazette, September 20, 2016 by Deborah Blackwell, reviewing lecture by I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
On September 13, 2016, Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen delivered a lecture at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of his online EdX course "Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive…
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Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen served as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar, Class of 2015. The Greenwall Foundation recently published a profile of Cohen's project,…
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Harvard Ed Portal, Allston, MA, September 13, 2016
Genetic enhancements. Reproductive technologies. Animal-human hybrids. Through new technologies and discoveries in science, we are able to do amazing things. However, these new developments have brought…
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The Coalition to Transform Care (C-TAC) is the Petrie-Flom Center's partner in the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy, launched in March 2016. …
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June 23, 2016—On Tuesday, June 21, The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a non-profit organization with a vision of improving advanced illness care for all Americans, and the Petrie-Flom…
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The Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy will foster development of improved models of care for individuals with serious advanced illness nearing end-of-life, through interdisciplinary analysis of…
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Centre of Research Excellence in End of Life Care: Law, Policy and/or Ethics PhD Scholarship A scholarship is available from the Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in End of Life Care for a student…
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Cross-registration is available for "Health Law, Policy, and Bioethics," a new course being offered as part of the HMS Master’s program in bioethics. A course description is provided below. Interested…
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CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper, No. 2015-3, July 1, 2015 by George P. Smith II (past Visiting Scholar)
Abstract: Existential, or non-somatic suffering, is often associated with the management of refractory pain at the end-stage of life. Because of misleading sympathologies,…
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, February 24, 2015 by Robert Klitzman, leading discussion with I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Live WebstreamWatch the event live online! DescriptionMedical tourism is a growing, multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year to get health care. Some seek…
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The Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review was a big success! Video will be posted on our website shortly, but our presenters will be posting on their respective topics in a collaborative blog…
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Harvard Crimson, November 20, 2014 by Katherine H. Scott, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
When most people hear the word “tourism,” they immediately think of flocking to the sandy beaches of the Caribbean or exploring museums in a European city. For Harvard Law School graduate I.…
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NBC News, October 18, 2014 by Bill Briggs, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
From the article: [...] Indeed, one of the three choices for terminally ill Americans seeking a physician’s aid to end their lives is to “get illegal assistance in your home states,”…
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"The Rachel Maddow Show," MSNBC, June 17, 2014 by Rachel Maddow, interviewing I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss his recent opinion piece in JAMA, coauthored with Robert D. Truog and Mark A. Rockoff (both of Harvard…
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Tulsa Law Review Vol. 49, Issue 3, 2013 by Einer Elhauge (Founding Faculty Director), I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and others
A symposium honoring the work of Petrie-Flom Founding Faculty Director Einer Elhauge has been published by the Tulsa Law Review. The issue includes Elhauge’s article, “I'm…
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LA Times, May 21, 2014 by Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Seth Klamann, citing I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
[...] A group of legal experts called the Death Penalty Committee of the Constitution Project recently recommended that doctors or other medical personnel supervise all medical aspects of executions, even…
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JAMA, May 19, 2014 by Robert D. Truog, MD; I. Glenn Cohen, JD (Faculty Director); Mark A. Rockoff, MD
Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has coauthored a new opinion piece now available through JAMA. From the article: In an opinion dissenting from a Supreme Court decision to deny…
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The Lancet: Neurology, Vol. 13, Issue 5, May 2014 by Robin Pierce (Senior Law and Ethics Associate)
Conundrum presents an intriguing picture of the state of Alzheimer's research and its abundant uncertainties. Through a series of interviews, observations, and informal conversations, medical…
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Bioethical Prescriptions collects Frances M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers…
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