Pre-Conference Session “After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?” May 7, 2015, 4:00 – 6:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East BC Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,” please join us for a pre-conference session examining the role of…
Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically March 18 – 20, 2015 Harvard Medical School Joseph B. Martin Conference Center 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 A full agenda is available on our website. We often talk, in bioethics, about individual autonomy. Yet our most challenging ethical, legal and clinical controversies in health care often center around…
Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically March 18 – 20, 2015 Harvard Medical School Joseph B. Martin Conference Center 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 A full agenda is available on our website. We often talk, in bioethics, about individual autonomy. Yet our most challenging ethical, legal and clinical controversies in health care often center around…
By Allison M. Whelan, J.D.Senior Fellow, Center for Biotechnology &Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of LawGuest Blogger As the majority of state legislatures get back in session, it is clear there will be no dearth of “anti-choice” legislation proposed and considered throughout the country. In Texas, Representative Matt Krause (R-Fort Worth) is…
2015 Annual Conference – Law, Religion, and Health in America May 8 – 9, 2015 Milstein East BC Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 [Map] 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…
By Jonathan F. Will [Cross-posted at Hamilton and Griffin on Rights.] This November citizens of Colorado will have an opportunity to vote on a proposed amendment (Amendment 67) to their state constitution that would define the words “person” and “child” in the Colorado Criminal Code and Colorado Wrongful Death Act to include “unborn human beings.” …
By Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo Last month, John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their research on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). iPSCs are capturing the public imagination as embryonic stem cells did fifteen years ago, but without the controversy surrounding the destruction of embryos: iPSCs can be…
