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Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles Baron Aug 2013

Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

Also appears in The Resolution of Family Conflict: Comparative Legal Perspectives, edited by John M. Eekelaar and Sanford N. Katz, 575-610. Toronto: Butterworths, 1984.


'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron Aug 2013

'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron Mar 1983

'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron Dec 1982

The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

The focus of the abortion debate in the United States tends to be on whether and at what stage a fetus is a person. I believe this tendency has been unfortunate and counterproductive. Instead of advancing dialogue between opposing sides, such a focus seems to have stunted it, leaving advocates in the sort of “I did not!” – “You did too!” impasse we remember from childhood. Also reminiscent of that childhood scene has been the vain attempt to break the impasse by appeal to a higher authority. Thus, the pro-choice forces hoped they had proved the pro-life forces “wrong” by …


Licensure Of Health Care Professionals: The Consumer's Case For Abolition, Charles Baron Dec 1982

Licensure Of Health Care Professionals: The Consumer's Case For Abolition, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

While state medical licensure laws ostensibly are intended to promote worthwhile goals, such as the maintenance of high standards in health care delivery, this Article argues that these laws in practice are detrimental to consumers. The Article takes the position that licensure contributes to high medical care costs and stifles competition, innovation and consumer autonomy. It concludes that delicensure would expand the range of health services available to consumers and reduce patient dependency, and that these developments would tend to make medical practice more satisfying to consumers and providers of health care services.


Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles H. Baron Dec 1982

Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles H. Baron

Charles H. Baron

Also appears in The Resolution of Family Conflict: Comparative Legal Perspectives, edited by John M. Eekelaar and Sanford N. Katz, 575-610. Toronto: Butterworths, 1984.