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Tag: Marcia Angell
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Nation & World
As the end nears, who’s in control?
Advocates and opponents of medical-aid-in-dying laws, also called physician-assisted death, gathered at Harvard Medical School for a two-day conference organized by the HMS Center for Bioethics.
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Nation & World
American Academy elects new members
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 197 new members, including 10 from Harvard.
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Nation & World
When to help a patient die
Legal analysts at a Harvard Medical School forum differ over whether a law allowing death with dignity or assisted suicide for terminally ill patients is right for Massachusetts. But they agreed that similar laws in Oregon and Washington have not proven to be a “slippery slope” that endangered vulnerable patients.
