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A Tribute To Jonathan Mann: Health And Human Rights In The Aids Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin
A Tribute To Jonathan Mann: Health And Human Rights In The Aids Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
A tribute to Jonathan Mann, former head of the World Health Organization's global AIDS program and a key figure in the early fight against HIV/AIDS. The author discusses Mann's work in health and human rights, prevention of disease, and eliminating social injustice.
Rights And Efficiency In American Health Law, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Rights And Efficiency In American Health Law, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
During the 1960s and 1970s, the individual rights revolution that swept through American society remade much of the nation's health law in its image. Sick people acquired the right to be told of the risks and benefits of proposed treatments and then to give thumbs-up or thumbs-down to their doctors' decisions. Successful suits for medical negligence went from rare to commonplace. Elderly and poor Americans achieved statutory rights of access to publicly funded healthcare, and courts burnished these rights with myriad procedural protections. The critically ill and their families won the right to refuse aggressive, life-sustaining treatments. Psychiatric patients acquired …