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Friday, February 20, 2015
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FREE REGISTRATION!
Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically
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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Registration is now free!
We often talk, in bioethics, about individual autonomy. Yet our most challenging ethical, legal and clinical controversies in health care often center around family roles and responsibilities: How should we handle parents' refusals of medically recommended treatment or, conversely, parents' requests to medicate or surgically alter their children? What should be known, and by whom, about a child's genome, especially when genetic information effects other family members? What weight should be given to family interests in decisions about a child's health care? How should we think about 3-parent embryos? Gamete donors? Gestational mothers? What rights and responsibilities should fathers have with regard to decisions about abortion and adoption, for example, as well as health care decisions for their offspring? Health care decisions might be messier, but maybe they would also be better if we gave more attention to family matters, and how families matter.
This multidisciplinary program has been developed to inform and deliberate with ethicists, health care providers, attorneys and the public about changes in conceptions of the family and medical technologies and practices that challenge moral conventions and contemporary law. Faculty experts and participants will engage in thoughtful discussion regarding a broad range of ethical and legal issues that arise from new ways of creating and new ways of understanding families and providing health care for expectant parents, growing fetuses, infants, children, adolescents...and their families.
A full agenda will be available soon on our website. To register, please click here!
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NEXT WEEK: Measles, Vaccines, and Protecting Public Health
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 4:00 PM
Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA The recent measles outbreak centered around Disneyland in California has reignited the contentious debate over childhood vaccination in the United States. Join us for a discussion of the ethical, legal, and public health issues surrounding vaccines, including mandates, exemptions, parental rights, and the role of misinformation in modern medicine. Panelists include: George Annas, Nir Eyal, Dyann Wirth and Ahmed Ragab (moderator).
For more information, please visit our website.
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News & Scholarship from Petrie-Flom Associates
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Social Science Research Network, February 16, 2015
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2015 Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium Rachel E. Sachs (Academic Fellow) Hosted by The George Washington University Law School and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, February 6 - 7, 2015
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Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law, January 2015
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Recent posts from Bill of Health!
Pharmaceuticals:
General health law/policy:
- "A global treaty is needed for antibiotic resistance," by Kevin Outterson
- "Time for a Healthcare Data Breach Review?," by Nicolas Terry
- "Studies provide new insights into youth and adolescent concussion," by Christine Baugh
- "What Ebola Teaches Us About Public Health In America," by George Annas
- "Do Medical-Malpractice Time Bars Apply to Hospitals' Indemnification Suits Against Doctors?," by Alex Stein
- "Organ Transplant Malpractice and the 'Proximate Cause'," by Alex Stein
- "Revoke the license of any doctor who opposes vaccination," by Art Caplan
- "Discrimination, by what yardstick?," by Kelsey Berry
- "The Timeline Approach to Medical Malpractice Defenses," by Alex Stein
If you'd like to join us as a guest blogger or if you have something you'd like us to post, please contact us at
[email protected].
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Check out our website for a more complete listing of events scheduled for 2015. Remember, you can find materials from many of our events, including slide presentations and full event videos, online in our events archive.
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Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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Wasserstein Hall, 3019, Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012,
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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March 18 - 20, 2015
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Save the Date for More Upcoming Petrie-Flom Events!
- Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, March 25, 2015
- King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act: A Conference, April 1, 2015
- Speaker on Law & Applied Neuroscience, April 8, 2015
- FDA's Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation: A lecture by Neil Flanzraich, April 14, 2015
- 2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America, May 8 - 9, 2015
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Health Law Policy & Bioethics Workshops
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Papers will be posted to our website one week in advance. A full list of the workshop schedule is available on our website.
All meetings will run from 5:00 to 7:00pm in Griswold Hall Room 110, 1525 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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May 20 - 22, 2015
Hosted by The Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School
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All opportunities are posted once in our newsletter. For the full posting and for other available positions, please visit our website.
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Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Application Deadline: February 27, 2015
Legal Department, Boston Children's Hospital
Application Deadline: Open until filled.
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