Visible Solutions: How Neuroimaging Helps Law Re-envision Pain

Date and Time

June 30, 2015
08:00AM - 05:00PM EDT

Location

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Program of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

Can brain imaging be a "pain-o-meter" that tells courts when a person is in pain?  Can fMRI help us discern whether intractable chronic pain is "all in your head" or all in the brain - or will it require us to reconsider that distinction? Leading neuroscientists, legal scholars, and bioethicists will debate standards and limits on how the law can use brain science to get smarter about a subject that touches everyone.

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