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  • Read more: Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the May 28th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: NEW EVENT! Petrie-Flom / Center for Bioethics Reception at ASLME 38th Annual Health Law Professors Conference June 4, 2015 7:30 – 9:30…

  • Read more: New paper on cross-disciplinary collaboration

    New paper on cross-disciplinary collaboration

    By Timo Minssen The nature of today’s most vital challenges and funding policies are driving more and more researchers towards interdisciplinary work. But what are the essential tools for those breaking the silos and leaving the comfort zones of their own disciplines? Some advice on how to address the particular challenges and opportunities in interdisciplinary research are described in our recent…

  • Read more: Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the May 15th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: REGISTER NOW! Visible Solutions: How Neuroimaging Helps Law Re-envision Pain June 30, 2015, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A Harvard…

  • Read more: Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the April 17th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: Apply Now! 2015-2016 Petrie-Flom Student Fellowships The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics is an interdisciplinary research program…

  • Read more: Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the March 20th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act April 1, 2015 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein…

  • Read more: Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the March 6th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act April 1, 2015 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein…

  • Read more: Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the February 20th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: FREE REGISTRATION! Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically March 18 – 20, 2015 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA We often talk,…

  • Read more: Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Check out the February 6th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: Gender (Re)assignment:Legal, Ethical, and Conceptual Issues Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 12:00 PM Pound Hall 102 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA [Map] Trans and…

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    Check out the latest news from the Petrie-Flom Center!

    Happy New Year! Check out the January 9th edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics. Featured in this edition: Outbreak: Developing New Medical Products for Epidemics, A lecture by Peter Hutt             …

  • Read more: A Physician Fights Surgery

    A Physician Fights Surgery

    Physician and bioethicist Carla C. Keirns described the potentially dangerous impact of medicalization on her own childbirth in the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs this month. A segment of that writing was reproduced in the Washington Post yesterday. In each piece, Keirns outlines the challenges she faced in vaginally delivering her son in a…