The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Cambridge Univ. Press, June 30, 2017) edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, and Elizabeth Sepper. Copies of Law, Religion, and Health in the United States will be available for sale and Professors Cohen and Sepper will be available for signing books at the end of the talk. This talk is co-sponsored with The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at noon, with lunch
Harvard Law School Room WCC 2019 Milstein West A (Map & Directions)
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
About Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
“While the law can create conflict between religion and health, it can also facilitate religious accommodation and protection of conscience. Finding this balance is critical to addressing the most pressing questions at the intersection of law, religion, and health in the United States: should physicians be required to disclose their religious beliefs to patients? How should we think about institutional conscience in the health care setting? How should health care providers deal with families with religious objections to withdrawing treatment? In this timely book, experts from a variety of perspectives and disciplines offer insight on these and other pressing questions, describing what the public discourse gets right and wrong, how policymakers might respond, and what potential conflicts may arise in the future. It should be read by academics, policymakers, and anyone else – patient or physician, secular or devout – interested in how US law interacts with health care and religion.” — Cambridge University Press
Panelists
I. Glenn Cohen (editor)
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics, Harvard Law School
Diane L. Moore
Director of the Religious Literacy Project, Lecturer on Religion, Conflict, and Peace, and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
Elizabeth Sepper (co-editor)
Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law)
Moderator
Intisar A. Rabb
Professor of Law and History; Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
More About Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
‘Health care – in particular, care related to sexuality and procreation – has become the epicenter of the struggle to define religious liberty in America. From insurance mandates to professional autonomy, from refusing reproductive care to ‘treating’ homosexuality, and from defining life to defining death, Law, Religion, and Health in the United States is essential reading.’ — R. Alta Charo, Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished Research Chair and Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
‘This timely volume addresses a wide array of deep religious, ethical, legal, and technological quandaries that swirl around the increasingly complex world of health care in the United States. Bringing together top scholars from divergent disciplines and perspectives, this book will be essential reading for those who wrestle with power over life and death in a divided country where there are no one-size-fits-all answers.’ — Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania