Yale Friday Newsletter – 03/01/13
Enjoy this week’s installment of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics’ Friday Newsletter!
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The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues – Now Available from OUP
The edited volume stemming from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2011 Annual Conference – The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, I. Glenn Cohen, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2013) – is now available for purchase through the publisher, Amazon, or other outlets. You can also download the introduction and front matter for free here. The […]
Where Are We Now: Post 3, The Agony (and Potential Ecstasy) of Defeat
By Scott Burris Law has been an extremely effective mode of public health intervention in the last thirty years, which means that proponents of its use have won more than a few tough political battles. Nonetheless, it is hard to escape the fact that, in recent years, the public health side has been getting killed […]
The Newtown Shootings, Gun Control, and Cultural Cognition
Like most (all?) of the blog readers, I find it difficult to return to my every day life this morning in the wake of the Newtown shootings. This post is not about the tragedy, nor is it a political or public health analysis of where to go next. Instead I want to offer a meta-thought […]
Extreme COI: The Named Beer University Studying the Health Effects of Beer?
The Petrie-Flom Center recently co-hosted a conference with the Safra Center on Institutional Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research Universities (fCOI), exploring situations where universities get cozy with industry. My friend, Jonathan Marks, is doing some really interesting work (see e.g., this) on conflicts of interest in the field of food-health research in particular. And, Michael Sandel also has […]
Public Health Extremism
By Max Mehlman In my new book from the Johns Hopkins University Press, Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering, I observe that the government might try to use its power to protect the public health to regulate human genetic engineering, but that given mistakes such as the eugenics sterilization […]
New Data Reports on Learning “Research Integrity”
When it comes to research with human subjects, about 60 percent of faculty members and 50 percent of graduate students learned about ethics through online or print resources according to a recent survey. These data could be seen as good or bad news—depending on how you feel about getting your ethics through online training modules, […]
Bill of Health Interview with Einer Elhauge on Health Care Reform
As you have already heard a few times on this blog, Professor Einer Elhauge, the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director and Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has a new book out on health care reform called Obamacare on Trial. The book collects various essays that Prof. Elhauge published in popular media outlets, along with […]
Video from Obamacare on Trial Panel Discussion
Video is now available from Einer Elhauge‘s recent Obamacare on Trial book talk and panel discussion with Glenn Cohen, Abbby Moncrieff, Sanford Levinson, and John McDonough. Check it out: https://www.law.harvard.edu/media/2012/11/01_ms.mov There’s also a new review of the book by the National Law Review available here.
The Lopsided Giant
By Christopher Robertson Professor Elhauge‘s provocative little book, Obamacare on Trial, has many of us rethinking and revisiting the NFIB v. Sebelius decision, and I had a chance to attend the nice book talk featuring Professor Elhauge and several interlocutors last week. Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion in the case is not prominently textualist (since contemporaneous dictionary […]
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