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Bioethics
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PropertyProf Blog
Book Announcement: ‘Persons, Parts and Property’
Imogen Goold (Oxford), Kate Greasley (Oxford), Jonathan Herring (Oxford) and Loane Skene (Melbourne) have recently edited Persons, Parts and Property (Oxford Press). Here's the blurb from the publisher's website:The debate…
Elder Law Prof Blog
An Optimum Age to Die?
By rmorgan
A more positive way perhaps to word the question might be "how old do you want to live to be?" The Atlantic ran an article that phrased it a bit…
The Faculty Lounge
CFP: “Normalizing Intersex”
I received the following email today: NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS Call for Stories on “Normalizing Intersex” Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics will publish an issue focused on stories from people who…
The Faculty Lounge
Call for Abstracts: Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Center Conference on Law, Religion, and American Health Care
This just in: The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce plans for our 2015 annual conference, this year entitled:…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Visiting Assistant Professor Valerie Gutmann Koch: Bioethics Fact and Fiction in Lifetime’s The Lottery
(Warning: this post discusses the pilot episode of the Lottery, a show that debuted on Lifetime in mid-July. If you want to be surprised by the basic plot elements of…
The Faculty Lounge
How an IRB Could Have Legitimately Approved the Facebook Experiment—and Why that May Be a Good Thing
Image courtesy Flickr By now, most of you have probably heard—perhaps via your Facebook feed itself—that for one week in January of 2012, Facebook altered the algorithms it uses to…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Ellen A. Waldman, Bioethics Mediation at the End of Life: Opportunities and Limitations, 15 Cardozo J. of Conflict Resol. 449 (2014). George P. Smith, Applying Bioethics in the 21st Century: Principlism…
The Faculty Lounge
Incentives and Organ Donation
I’ve written about incentives and organ donation on a number of occasions here at the Lounge (see, for example, here and here). I spent Monday and Tuesday of this week…
PropertyProf Blog
New York Times Covers Kidney Donation
Sally Satel, writing in the Sunday Review section, comes out in favor of a modified market in organs:THE national transplant list just passed a morbid milestone: More than 100,000 people…
The Faculty Lounge
Flesh List Is Me
Yes, I know that sounds very weird. I spent Friday afternoon recording a podcast with Christian Turner and Joe Miller for Oral Argument and had tons of fun. Christian and…