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Bioethics
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The Faculty Lounge
Swanson, Banking on the Body
Northeastern University law professor Kara W. Swanson's terrific study Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America will be published by Harvard University Press…
The Faculty Lounge
Call for Applications: Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellowship at HLS, 2014-2016
PURPOSE: The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics is an interdisciplinary research program at Harvard Law School dedicated to scholarly research at the intersection of law and…
International Law Prof Blog
Call for Papers: Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2013
Abstracts are invited for the Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference, to be held December 2-3, 2013 at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The conference aims to provide a forum for postgraduate students…
PropertyProf Blog
Henrietta Lacks Finally Gets Her Due
By propertyprof
For those who haven't followed the story, here's a brief recap of the controversy over the HeLa Cell line: Henrietta Lacks was a poorSouthern tobacco farmer born in 1920. Ms.Lacks…
Health Law Prof Blog
Artificial Organ Allocation & Financing
Organ allocation always involves contestable values. New technologies of regenerative medicine will raise similar concerns. Slate's Michael Bennett offers the following, interesting set of dilemmas at the intersection of cutting…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
California Bill Raises Questions About How to Protect Human Egg Donors
The Los Angeles Times - op-ed: Leveling the field for human egg donors, by Naomi Cahn & June Carbone:A bill before Gov. Jerry Brown would make it legal for research programs…
Health Law Prof Blog
Informed Consent in the NICU? Bioethicists Disagree
Teaching the regulation of human subject research gives me the ability to demonstrate, just about every class period, how blurry the line can be between what is legal and what is ethical. …
The Faculty Lounge
An Open Letter From a Genomic Altruist to a Genomic Extrovert
This post is part of Bill of Health's symposium on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identification Demonstrations. You can call up all of the symposium contributions here. We’ll continue…
The Faculty Lounge
Reflections of a Re-Identification Target, Part I: Some Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free
[This post is part of the online symposium I've organized over at Bill of Health on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identification Demonstrations. Background on the symposium is here,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Exchange of Inmate Organs for Liberty: Diminishing the ‘Yuck Factor’ in the Bioethics Repugnance Debate”
Main May 8, 2013"The Exchange of Inmate Organs for Liberty: Diminishing the 'Yuck Factor' in the Bioethics Repugnance Debate" The title of this post is the title of this notable…