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Painful Disparities, Painful Realities, Amanda C. Pustilnik Mar 2014

Painful Disparities, Painful Realities, Amanda C. Pustilnik

Faculty Scholarship

Legal doctrines and decisional norms treat chronic claims pain differently than other kinds of disability or damages claims because of bias and confusion about whether chronic pain is real. This is law’s painful disparity. Now, breakthrough neuroimaging can make pain visible, shedding light on these mysterious ills. Neuroimaging shows these conditions are, as sufferers have known all along, painfully real. This Article is about where law ought to change because of innovations in structural and functional imaging of the brain in pain. It describes cutting-edge scientific developments and the impact they should make on evidence law and disability law, and, …


Reversing A Trend: An As-Applied Approach Weakens The Boerne Congruence And Proportionality Test, Michael J. Neary Jan 2005

Reversing A Trend: An As-Applied Approach Weakens The Boerne Congruence And Proportionality Test, Michael J. Neary

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Discrimination Based On Hiv/Aids And Other Health Conditions: "Disability" As Defined Under Federal And State Law, David W. Webber Jan 2000

Discrimination Based On Hiv/Aids And Other Health Conditions: "Disability" As Defined Under Federal And State Law, David W. Webber

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Adverse Impact Of Predisposition Testing On Major Life Activities: Lessons From Brca 1/2testing, Katherine A. Schneider Jan 2000

Adverse Impact Of Predisposition Testing On Major Life Activities: Lessons From Brca 1/2testing, Katherine A. Schneider

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


The Definition Of Disability: Perspective Of The Disability Community, Deborah Kaplan Jan 2000

The Definition Of Disability: Perspective Of The Disability Community, Deborah Kaplan

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Bragdon V. Abbott: Extending The Americans With Disabilities Act To Asymptomatic Individuals, Eugenia Liu Jan 2000

Bragdon V. Abbott: Extending The Americans With Disabilities Act To Asymptomatic Individuals, Eugenia Liu

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Accuracy And Consistency In Categorical Decision-Making: A Study Of Social Security's Medical-Vocational Guidelines-Two Birds With One Stone Or Pigeon-Holing Claimants?, John J. Capowski Jan 1983

Accuracy And Consistency In Categorical Decision-Making: A Study Of Social Security's Medical-Vocational Guidelines-Two Birds With One Stone Or Pigeon-Holing Claimants?, John J. Capowski

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.