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I'M Interested In Health Law - Now Where Can I Get A Job?, Jennifer Bard
I'M Interested In Health Law - Now Where Can I Get A Job?, Jennifer Bard
Jennifer Bard
Health care is a trillion-dollar industry that has grown exponentially over the past ten years with very little sign of slowing. The demand of legal services has tracked the growth of the industry. As a result, individuals in the health care field are increasingly thinking of expanding their career opportunities by getting law degrees and students already enrolled in law schools are interested in pursuing opportunities within health law. This article is intended to serve as a guide to both groups about the wide variety of job opportunities for lawyers within health care, where to find these jobs and how …
Three Ways Of Looking At A Health Law And Literature Class, Jennifer Bard
Three Ways Of Looking At A Health Law And Literature Class, Jennifer Bard
Jennifer Bard
The authors of this Article participated in a panel at the American Society of Law, Ethics & Medicine Conference in 2008 that discussed the use of literary materials in law school to teach medical ethics (and related matters) in a law school setting. Each author comes at the topic from a different perspective based on his or her own experience and background. This Article and the panel on which it was based reflect views on how literature can play a valuable role in helping law students, as well as medical students, understand important legal and ethical issues and concepts in …
Review Of Judith Daar, Reproductive Technologies And The Law, Jennifer Bard
Review Of Judith Daar, Reproductive Technologies And The Law, Jennifer Bard
Jennifer Bard
Review of Judith F. Daar, Reproductive Technologies and the Law.
Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic: Why The Incarceration Of Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Violates Public Health, Ethical, And Constitutional Principles And Therefore Cannot Be Made Right By Piecemeal Changes To The Insanity Defense, Jennifer Bard
Jennifer Bard
The author argues that the problem of adjudicating the mentally ill who commit crimes is too large a societal issue to be resolved by refining the insanity defense. Since this is a threat to the public's health, it is fair to describe the current situation as a public health crisis. First, by not providing adequate mental health resources we create conditions in which people with mental illness find themselves in situations where due to their illness they have the opportunity to commit criminal acts which are causally related to the impairment of their thought process. Second, when people with mental …
Diagnosis Is Anencephaly And The Parents Ask About Organ Donation: Now What?, Jennifer Bard
Diagnosis Is Anencephaly And The Parents Ask About Organ Donation: Now What?, Jennifer Bard
Jennifer Bard
The issues surrounding organ donation by anencephalic infants such as Baby Avery are complex for all involved. This Article will examine anencephalic organ donation by providing an overview of the legal, medical, social, and ethical issues that hospital counsel and ethics committees will face when presented with anencephalic organ donation scenarios. This discussion will be framed by recounting recent cases involving parents who wanted to donate their anencephalic infant's organs. Furthermore, this Article will propose that the topic of anencephalic organ donation be thoroughly discussed and well understood in every medical/legal setting in which an anencephalic infant may present itself.