Bill of Health

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The  Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics  is pleased to announce our 2025 annual conference: “Law, Healthcare, and the Aging Brain and Body.” The conference will produce a book that explores the legal, policy, and ethical challenges and opportunities of aging. Kohn , the David M. Editors: I.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And, as detailed in my book, Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow , the American population is aging. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Cognitive decline becomes more common as individuals age.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 2, 2022

And although some participants referred to the human genome in mystical terms (for example, talking about HHGE as “rewriting the book of life”), this appeared to have added to the weight of both sides of the pragmatic scale — caution and opportunity.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. My friends and family knew a lot more about what was right or wrong with me because they knew me before the accident, and were not just trying to match me to book descriptions of what people are like. By Leslie C. I’m a tenured law professor at UNLV.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is technoableism as I describe it in my book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. Disability is often appealed to as a justification for technological development, and as a moral imperative toward investment in technological research.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

This book picks up where The Patient Will See You Now and The Creative Destruction of Medicine leave off…on the future of medicine, versus what’s led up to where we are now. refers us to Yuval Noah Harari whose book Homo Deus is groundbreaking (and a must-read for Health Populi readers, too). Furthermore, Dr. T.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

We must avoid short-run thinking, as Dowling spells out in his book, Leading Through a Pandemic. As we return to our work and lives post #HIMSS21, I think of the book Connected reminding us that we have the opportunity to kick off virtuous cycles of good health behaviors. Take care of your staff.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic. This last chart from a 2014 PwC/Strategy& report on the birth of the healthcare consumer is data I often turned to as U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

As I continue to evolve my own health citizenship, I am reading a book by Minouche Shafik of the London School of Economics called What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society. Kudos to the editors at JAMA for curating and publishing the August 17th issue addressing many facets and roots of health disparities in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Riffing on his great book, Deep Medicine: How AI Can Humanize Health Care , Eric started his talk donning my own professional hat as a heath economist, sharing data about America’s high health care spending with low ROI yield. I quite concur: this is the last section of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumers to Health Citizens.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Check out this graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. CTA is the membership organization for companies that innovate, manufacture and market consumer-facing tech like big-screen TVs, slick new autos, video games and voice assistants. Let me connect the dots.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 8, 2024

I added Wi-Fi as a basic human need on Maslow’s Hierarchy, included in my book Health Citizenship , with digital connectivity and privacy rights a pillar of being a full-on health citizen. all, through videoconferencing sites like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, and FaceTime and WhatsApp on smartphones.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

They completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and received their PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous books, including Women in the Bible and Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The first is a scene from the film “And The Band Played On,” based on the book of the same name, about the AIDS epidemic. As I repeat the unpleasant realization that help is not on the way from above, and attempt to think my way out of the assumptions that set me up for future unpleasant astonishment, I keep returning to two works of art.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I often eat dessert first, and in this book the 2.5 The book’s many examples of citizen scientists spans at least forty years, and even features very current insights into Long COVID and the use of TikTok in patient communities. or Health 2.0” Join the revolution.” ” Susannah already knows, I’m in.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In our forthcoming book, Health Communism , we write that “health” is an impossibility under capitalism. Instead we will need to undo the ties that connect health with capital, that bind illness and health to the commodity form, and, in so doing, profoundly reshape our broader political economy itself.

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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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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Whelan , JD, MA Bioethics, is an assistant professor at the Georgia State University College of Law. Allison is the author of multiple book chapters and has also published op-eds and commentary, including for Ms. Magazine , the Harvard Bill of Health , and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And, as I write in my latest book, When Misfortune becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality , the challenges to advancing global health justice have evolved over these decades as the global embrace of neoliberalism colonized our collective imagination. Alicia Ely Yamin J.D. 1991), M.P.H. 1996), Ph.D.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “We all benefit from the robust sharing of our data, because insights that may benefit all of us can be garnered,” I quoted a Stanford faculty study in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

There’s a fundamental ambivalence, which I note in my book, HealthConsuming , in the chapter “Privacy and Health Data In-Security.” New companies are forming to enable people to monetize their data, so we enter another new bioethical space in this scenario. So much for privacy and personal control in our own homes.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 17, 2022

As of June 15, six other hospitals had also removed pixels from their appointment booking pages and at least five of the seven health systems that had Meta Pixels installed in their patient portals had removed those pixels. The click doesn’t mean they scheduled,” she wrote.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

We currently have laws on the books in the U.S. We currently have laws on the books that say you can’t be discriminated against in health insurance coverage or employment based on your genetic profile (i.e., She is the author of the recently-published book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. .

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

Place matters for a person’s health,” I wrote in Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.” The social determinants of health are conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books.

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

The book is discussed in a World Economic Forum essay discussing the economists’ consensus to “act fast.” curve adds new American patients testing positive for the coronavirus, the book and essay illustrate the tension between health consumer versus the health citizen in the U.S. . ” As the U.S. ” The U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Already, abortion bans that are on the books in some states punish the abortion provider, making it a felony to provide an abortion. Additionally, pregnant immigrants have faced additional structural barriers to accessing necessary abortion care. This article explains how these injustices are likely to be exacerbated by the Dobbs ruling.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

.” One-half of people believe the tech industry has “a lot” of power just behind politicians and finance.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

“The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust,” Dr. Eric Topol wrote in his 2019 book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. The book is intelligently critical of what was done during the pandemic, but at all points it remains within the confines of what is “politically respectable.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. I’ll be sharing more about that with you in my upcoming book on health care consumerism and beyond… so stay tuned for that plotline.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The authors are affiliated with Case Western Reserve with interests in bioethics and medicine. The graphic on SDoH comes out of my book, HealthConsuming – the morphing on health consumers to health citizens).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In my book Health Citizenship: how a virus opened up hearts and minds , I discuss how the pandemic has moved more patients as health consumers toward their health citizenship. The coronavirus re-shaped people in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

He is the author of the book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era and teaches in the Program in Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. . In the long term, we must find our way to a society that is not fundamentally murderous.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

I discuss this challenge and the need for a GDPR-like law to replace our quaint privacy patchwork quilt in the chapter “Privacy and Health Data In-Security” in my book, HealthConsuming. Now, let’s hop back across The Pond to note that today, Boris Johnson was anointed the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: For a lesson in how NOT to do public health, your required reading is Randy Shilts’ landmark book, And the Band Played On. ” Here in Health Populi, I’ve referred to this book many times over the 17 years since launching the blog. Shilts presents one alarming story after another.”

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

As a MarketWatch headline put it , “Dow, S&P 500 book best day in two weeks after Biden vows no return to March 2020-style lockdowns as Omicron rages.”. And for Wall Street, the speech was meant to provide a crucial piece of reassurance: There would be no federal support for public health measures that restrict commerce.

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