Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics

Big bad data: law, public health, and biomedical databases.

The accelerating adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems will have far-reaching implications for public health research and surveillance, which in turn could lead to changes in public policy, statutes, and regulations. The public health benefits of EHR use can be significant. However, researchers and analysts who rely on EHR data must proceed with caution and understand the potential...

Feminism, law, and bioethics.

Feminist legal theory provides a healthy skepticism toward legal doctrine and insists that we reexamine even formally gender-neutral rules to uncover problematic assumptions behind them. The article first outlines feminist legal theory from the perspectives of liberal, cultural, and radical feminism. Examples of how each theory influences legal practice, case law, and legislation are highlighte...

Law and bioethics.

A Word from . • • the Center for Bioethics and Health Law

If you look on the CEP web page and read a description ofthe Consortium Ethics Program, you'll see that "the CEP is the ethics education network of western PA" and that it combines the best of the academic research on ethics with a ''practical, hands­ on approach to teaching." One of the goals of the CEP from the very beginning was to "bridge the gap" that often exists between the academic sett...

Ethical Issues in Big Data Health Research: Currents in Contemporary Bioethics.

Mark A. Rothstein Let me say at the outset that I am not an expert on Big Data. I am not even an expert on Little Data. I am, like many of you, someone who teaches and writes about research ethics, including privacy, autonomy, and informed consent. I am someone who is concerned whenever I hear that a new research method is so exciting and so promising that we ought to set aside the ethical prin...