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Mental And Nervous Injury In Workmen's Compensation, Arthur Larson

Vanderbilt Law Review

"[H]ow could it be real when. . .it was purely mental?" This poignant judicial cry out of the past, which I occasionally quote to put down my psychiatrist friends, contains the clue to almost all of the trouble that has attended the development of workmen's compensation law related to mental and nervous injuries. This equation of "mental" with "unreal," or imaginary, or phoney, is so ingrained that it has achieved a firm place in our idiomatic language. Who has not at some time, in dismissing a physical complaint of some suffering friend or relative, airily waved the complaint aside by …

The Affiliations Between Pennsylvania's Abortion Laws And Dying Declarations, Joseph M. Iacovitti

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

Medical Profession—Anti-Kickback Statute: Licensed Medical Practitioners May Not Receive Financial Benefits From Referral Of Patients Or Sale Of Medical Supplies To Patients.—Day V. Inland Empire Optical, Inc., 76 Wash. Dec. 2d 566, 456 P.2d 1011 (1969); Rcw Ch. 19.68 (1969), Anon

Washington Law Review

The five defendant ophthalmologists and defendant Inland Empire Optical, Inc., whose stock was wholly owned by these doctors, occupied the same building. Inside the waiting rooms of the doctors' offices were three strategically placed signs which informed patients of the presence of the optical shop on the floor below. Plaintiff doctors and a corporate optical firm brought suit to enjoin this cooperative practice, alleging a violation of Washington's anti-kickback statute. Upon defendants' appeal from a superior court decree granting the injunction, the Washington Supreme Court affirmed as modified. Held: Ophthalmologists are entitled to own stock in a dispensing optical company, …

Book Reviews, Samuel A. Bleicher, Nat. T. Winston, Jr., Dan B. German

Vanderbilt Law Review

Law-Making in the International Civil Aviation Organization By Thomas Buergenthal Syracuse University Press, 1969. Pp. viii,247. $10.50.

reviewer: Samuel A. Bleicher

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The Role of Psychiatry in Law By Manfred S. Guttmacher, M.D. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1968. Pp. ix, 170. $7.50.

reviewer: Nat. T. Winston, Jr., M.D.

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The Development of Political Attitudes in Children By Robert D. Hess & Judith V. Torney Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1967. Pp. xviii, 288. $9.75.

reviewer: Dan B. German

Supplying Organs For Transplantation, Jesse Dukeminier Jr

Michigan Law Review

The possibility that a market for organs will develop arises as a result of recent scientific successes in interchanging human parts and the consequent imbalance that has arisen between the quantity of organs supplied and the quantity demanded. Currently, and in the foreseeable future, unless our laws are changed, the quantity supplied will not equal the quantity demanded at a zero price. When useful items are in short supply in a market economy monetary inducements to increase the supply are commonly offered. The question then arises whether society should permit such inducements in order to ensure a satisfactory supply of …

The Language Of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization: A Study In Sound And Fury, Steven H. Levinson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Involuntary civil commitment is the business of hospitalizing and treating, without their consent, persons whom a court, with the aid of professional diagnosticians, determines to be psychologically disturbed or mentally ill. The purpose of the present study will be to demonstrate that the medical diagnoses of mental illness which justify involuntary civil commitment are achieved on the basis of at least unreliable and at worst invalid sets of diagnostic categories and assessments. For the purpose of determining the reliability of these diagnostic findings, the author selected a representative sample of the involuntary mental hospitalization proceedings of the Wayne County Probate …

Compulsory No-Fault Medical Insurance For Automobile Owners, William L. Schlosser

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The enactment of the Massachusetts compulsory no-fault insurance bill, and Senator Phillip Hart's recent introduction of national no-fault insurance legislation, indicate the serious consideration no-fault insurance is receiving as a method of reforming the existing auto accident compensation system. The current tort system of recovery of auto accident medical expenses is inefficient, and, in many cases, does not adequately compensate the injured parties. Compulsory no-fault insurance is well suited to remedy these deficiencies. Under a no-fault insurance plan, benefits would be paid without regard to the question of fault; consequently, every accident victim would receive compensation without first having to …

For Unto Us A Child Is Born, Legally, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

Both courts and legislatures have been loath to establish law in the field of human artificial insemination.

As a result, the danger of criminal prosecution and the uncertainties of a legal vacuum face couples who must turn to artificial insemination to create a family. But the dark corner may have been turned, for one court decision and recent statutes in two states offer hope.

Abortion And Legal Rationality, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

This article concerns the legitimacy of various legal schemes for dealing with abortion. Legitimacy in one sense is secured simply by complying with the formal criteria for valid law-making: enactment within power and in due form. But jurists have learned (or re-learned) that more can be said about legitimacy, without betraying the purity of their discipline by moralizing and advocacy. From this development in jurisprudential thought emerges the range of questions and criteria deployed in the present study.

The Silent Doctors- The Conspiracy Of Silence, Joseph Kelner

University of Richmond Law Review

Medical malpractice and malpractice lawsuits are on the rise. Perhaps the main reason is that less than 300,000 active doctors are caring for over 200 million Americans-about one doctor for every 700 citizens. This is a dangerous shortage of doctors-a pressure cooker of overworked physicians, high caseloads, short-cut precautions, and substandard treatment.

Recent Legislation

University of Richmond Law Review

This is a list of the recent legislation from 1970.

Constitutional Reflections On Abortion Reform, Patrick L. Baude

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Treating The Untreatable: A Critique Of The Proposed Pennsylvania Right To Treatment Law, Aaron Twerski

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.