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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Call for Abstracts: Law, Religion, and American Health Care
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SUMMARY:Call for Abstracts: Law, Religion, and American Health Care
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Petrie-Flom Center is excited to announce our 2015 annual conference topic:­ "<strong>Law, Religion, and American Healthcare."</strong> ­ The conference will be held May 8-9, 2015 at Harvard Law School.</p><p>You can register <a href="https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07e9scnzae98735b5c&amp;oseq=&amp;c=&amp;ch=">here</a>. </p><p>We are now soliciting abstracts, which are due on <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">December 1, 2014</span></strong>. </p><p>We welcome submissions on both broad conceptual questions and more specific policy issues.  Potential topics might include:</p><ul><li>Analysis of the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and other federal, state, and local legal provisions that come into play at the intersection between religion and health care</li><li>The Affordable Care Act and employer-based health care coverage, including the contraceptives mandate and related court decisions</li><li>Legal obligations and accommodations of religious health care organizations</li><li>Protection (or not) of health professional conscience</li><li>Health care decision-making for minors with religious parents</li><li>Religious objection v. discriminatory behavior</li><li>Informed consent and information flow, e.g., religious objection to providing certain information, inclusion of religious information in consent disclosures, etc.</li><li>"Medicalization" of religious beliefs, e.g., regulation of homosexual conversion therapy</li><li>Abortion policy, including clinic protests and protections, and its relationship to religion</li><li>Embryonic stem cell policy and its relationship to religion</li><li>End-of-life care, including assisted suicide, and its relationship to religion</li><li>Complicity as both a legal and religious concept </li><li>Comparative analysis, e.g., between professions, health care practices, countries, etc.</li></ul><p>Please forward the call to anyone who might be interested, post on your blogs, newsletters, etc.  See attached document below...additional information is available on our <a href="http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/2015-annual-conference">website</a>.  </p>
LOCATION:Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East BC, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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