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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos first appeared on Bill of Health. The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos appeared first on Bill of Health. This article is lightly edited and reprinted, with permission, from the American Council on Science and Health.

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Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing

Bill of Health

JUNE 28, 2023

By Donrich Thaldar On the issue of human genome editing (HGE), attitudes between bioethics scholars and the general public diverge, as highlighted by my team’s findings from a recent deliberative public engagement study. ” (Not one study participant relied on this objection during the more than 20 hours of deliberations.)

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Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2021

The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field.

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A New Theory for Gene Ownership

Bill of Health

AUGUST 31, 2022

The story of Henrietta Lacks is surely among the most famous in the history of bioethics, and its facts are well-known. Yet courts are routinely called on to answer questions about the boundaries of ownership in bioethics. In short, most prior analyses of ownership in bioethics are about what should be owned. By James Toomey.

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Bill of Health’s Top 10 Posts of 2022

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil. Safety First: Potential Heart Health Risks of Microdosing. Thanks for reading!

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The Only Moral Abortion is…

Bill of Health

JULY 21, 2022

The Association of Bioethics Program Directors ’ (ABPD) Bioethics Guidance for the Post Dobbs-Landscape helped crystalize my position on this matter. Access to care is a core bioethical consideration and it means supporting legal abortion broadly.

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Highlights from Petrie-Flom Center Discussion on Neuroscience and Cannabis

Bill of Health

JUNE 16, 2023

Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. By Minsoo Kwon The legalization of cannabis has raised ethical, regulatory, and scientific questions. This article highlights key points made during the conversation.

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Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship Now Accepting Applications

Bill of Health

APRIL 28, 2023

The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship is a competitive one-year program designed to support Harvard graduate students interested in pursuing independent scholarly projects related to health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

MARCH 9, 2022

She teaches Psychedelic Bioethics at The Ohio State University, and she previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Emma Tumilty, PhD is a bioethicist and lecturer in the School of Medicine at Deakin University.

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Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Disability-inclusive climate decision-making and solutions are not only essential for safeguarding the lives and dignity of persons with disabilities, but may also enhance the equity and effectiveness of the global transition to climate-resilient and low-carbon societies.

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Restricting Access to Microdosing is Morally Wrong

Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

Many bioethical theories affirm that people should be free to pursue interventions that support their flourishing, so long as those interventions do not harm other individuals or groups. As with all things bioethical, the picture is more nuanced than it appears.

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Bill of Health

AUGUST 11, 2022

An active bioethics and medical law community is needed to influence the interpretation of the law in Courts to set standards that complement the right to health. Medical law is virtually nonexistent in the curriculum of law schools, and only in recent years have some academics published works in this area of bioethics and law.

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Trying and Sentencing Youth As Adults: Key Takeaways from Recent Petrie-Flom Center Event

Bill of Health

APRIL 19, 2023

Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. This article highlights key points made during the conversation. First, BJ Casey , Christina L.

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2022-2023 Student Fellows

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from across Harvard. Sarah Gabriele is a second year Master of Bioethics candidate at Harvard Medical School. We are excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family. Louis (USA).

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Are we taking patient privacy as seriously as we ought to be?

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Allen said ahead of the conference that she wanted to bring her expertise in law and bioethics to bear on problems of great concern to healthcare and technology and would focus her discussion on data exchange and patient privacy.

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New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making

Bill of Health

JULY 18, 2022

The study offered participants a prompt drawn from classical debates in bioethics on the ethical status of advance directives — documents composed while at full cognitive abilities that direct certain medical treatment in the event that the author later loses mental capacity.

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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2023-2024 Student Fellows

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from Harvard Law School. (Clockwise from top left: Joelle Boxer, Adithi Iyer, Vincent Joralemon, Hannah Rahim, Bobby Stroup ) We are excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family.

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303 Creative, Transgender Rights, and the Ongoing Culture Wars

Bill of Health

JULY 27, 2023

face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communities have an essential role to play both in properly framing the legal issue, as well as explaining what is truly at stake in these cases to minimize the chances of similarly harmful rulings for the transgender community moving forward.

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Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. This post is based on Sharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski, The Patient’s Voice: Legal Implications of Patient- Reported Outcome Measures , 22 Yale J. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023).

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Psychedelic Policy on the Federal Level: Key Takeaways from a Petrie-Flom Center Panel

Bill of Health

APRIL 26, 2022

To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. By James R. A full video of the event is available below.

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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In my experience, it is not unusual for schools to offer health care law or bioethics courses, but public health law courses are rarely on the books. I would wager a guess that the vast majority of law students, law professors, and law school administrators do not even know what public health law is.

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues.

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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

APRIL 24, 2023

Glenn Cohen’s Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop at HLS. My latest article, Public Health Product Hops (forthcoming 2023, American University Law Review, available on SSRN ), represented my long-form attempt to reconcile our differing opinions on product hopping.

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Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Whelan , JD, MA Bioethics, is an assistant professor at the Georgia State University College of Law.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Alicia Ely Yamin is a Lecturer on Law and the Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and a Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy at Partners In Health.

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Employers and the Future of Public Health

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Because cost concerns and healthy workplaces often align for employers, workplace rules constitute a promising strategy for promoting public health. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

health care outcomes, bioethics, and moral imperatives. We start with key lessons from the pandemic, confront the supply-side challenges we’ve already seen the start of, confess to our thorny sub-optimal solutions to the opioid crisis and mental health epidemic, and deal with the scourge of health equity that mars U.S.

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

Degree Candidate in Government and Global Health and Health Policy at Harvard College and a student intern at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. His academic interests lie at the intersection of criminal justice and public health.

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The Journal of Law and the Biosciences’ Growing Impact

Bill of Health

JULY 28, 2022

JLB contains original and response articles, essays, and commentaries on a wide range of topics, including bioethics, neuroethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cells, enhancement, patent law, and food and drug regulation. The journal is always looking to publish new, exciting work.

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California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville. Rothstein is the Herbert F. The post California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 appeared first on Bill of Health.

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What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care

Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2023

is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Surely, diversity among our nation’s physicians is a compelling societal interest, but without affirmative action, physician diversity will be difficult to achieve and sustain. Gregory Curfman , M.D.

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Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. This article is adapted slightly from remarks the author delivered at the 2022 International Neuroethics Society annual meeting on a panel about neurorehabilitation moderated by Dr. Joseph Fins. By Leslie C. I’m a tenured law professor at UNLV. But I went through hell to be here.

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What to Know About Gene Therapy

HIT Consultant

JULY 12, 2022

When new techniques are developed, bioethics is always present to evaluate the procedure’s hazards and moral ramifications. Ethical Issues in Gene Therapy. The idea of genetically altering genes has long been the subject of contentious debate in the scientific community.

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Branding Dreams

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge. TDI has been found by sleep and dream experts to have various potential benefits , such as improving sleep quality, stimulating creativity, and treating addiction.

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Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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Where Has All The Talent Gone? The Skills Gap Stalling The March of UK Life Sciences

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AUGUST 1, 2023

The most important skills cited by several studies and publications as being important for life sciences professionals include research ethics, scientific peer communication, bioethics, time management, research project management and scientific knowledge and methods outside of their present research area and awareness of industry trends.

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Autonomy, Insurance, and Luck

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

One is the philosophical principle of autonomy, which I regularly teach in my bioethics class. It’s quite a list, so sometimes I mention it to my friends, so they will be as amazed as I am. I am a lifelong academic, so I also think about what lessons they’ve taught me. In my opinion, it means you always have to be prepared for the very worst.

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Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. What is clear is that employers, policy makers, and professional associations should think deeply about it. Now is the time to begin implementing lawful strategies to address this vital matter.

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Juneteenth 2020: Inequality and Injustice in Health Care in America

Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2020

” Among her many roles, Dr. Galarneau teaches at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. King’s original statement in her seminal essay, “Getting King’s Words Right.”

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The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 4 – Tech Giants in Healthcare, U.S. Lessons from Europe

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2022

” This observation comes from a new report, Tech Giants in Healthcare , written by four European-based experts in healthcare and bioethics.

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Equitable and Ethical Access to Care: The Case of Pre-Hospital Blood Administration

Bill of Health

JUNE 29, 2023

By Stephen Wood The State of Massachusetts is currently reviewing a new protocol for the pre-hospital (i.e., ambulance) administration of blood products to patients with acute hemorrhagic shock.

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We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism.

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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing

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Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions

A New Theory for Gene Ownership

Bill of Health’s Top 10 Posts of 2022

The Only Moral Abortion is…

Highlights from Petrie-Flom Center Discussion on Neuroscience and Cannabis

Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship Now Accepting Applications

A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving

Call for Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change

Restricting Access to Microdosing is Morally Wrong

Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Trying and Sentencing Youth As Adults: Key Takeaways from Recent Petrie-Flom Center Event

Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2022-2023 Student Fellows

Are we taking patient privacy as seriously as we ought to be?

New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making

Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2023-2024 Student Fellows

303 Creative, Transgender Rights, and the Ongoing Culture Wars

Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Psychedelic Policy on the Federal Level: Key Takeaways from a Petrie-Flom Center Panel

Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Public Health Product Hops

Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?

Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Employers and the Future of Public Health

Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

The Journal of Law and the Biosciences’ Growing Impact

California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care

Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell

What to Know About Gene Therapy

Branding Dreams

Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

Where Has All The Talent Gone? The Skills Gap Stalling The March of UK Life Sciences

Autonomy, Insurance, and Luck

Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace

Juneteenth 2020: Inequality and Injustice in Health Care in America

The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 4 – Tech Giants in Healthcare, U.S. Lessons from Europe

Equitable and Ethical Access to Care: The Case of Pre-Hospital Blood Administration

We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health

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