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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2010
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Redressing The Unconscionable Health Gap: A Global Plan For Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
Redressing The Unconscionable Health Gap: A Global Plan For Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Consider two children—one born in sub-Saharan Africa and the other in the United States. The African child is twenty-five times more likely to die in the first five years of life; if she lives to child-bearing age, she is a two hundred times more likely to die in labor; and overall, she will die thirty years earlier than the American child. The international community is deeply resistant to taking bold remedial action—more concerned with their geostrategic interests than the health of the poor. The scale of foreign aid is both insufficient and unsustainable and fails to address the key determinants …
Mapping The Issues: Public Health, Law And Ethics, Lawrence O. Gostin
Mapping The Issues: Public Health, Law And Ethics, Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The field of public health is typically regarded as a positivistic pursuit and, undoubtedly, our understanding of the etiology and response to disease is heavily influenced by scientific inquiry. Public health policies, however, are shaped not only by science but also by ethical values, legal norms, and political oversight. Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (expanded and updated 2nd ed., 2010) probes and seeks to illuminate this complex interplay, through a careful selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases together with discussion and analysis of critical problems at the interface of law, ethics, and public health. The …
The National Individual Health Insurance Mandate: Ethics And The Constitution, Lawrence O. Gostin
The National Individual Health Insurance Mandate: Ethics And The Constitution, Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Within weeks, after signing the nation’s first comprehensive health insurance reform, twenty states filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Bill’s most politically charged feature—an individual purchase mandate. If anything, the tax penalty is too low compared with the cost of insurance, so it may not sufficiently incentivize healthy individuals. But it remains deeply controversial because it compels individuals to purchase coverage they choose not to have, raising the question whether Congress can lawfully and ethically require individuals to contract with, and transfer money to, a private party. To be sure, the individual mandate lacks a clear American precedent. (It …
The Unconscionable Health Gap: A Global Plan For Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
The Unconscionable Health Gap: A Global Plan For Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
International norms recognize the special value of health. The WHO Constitution states that “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health” is a fundamental human right. The right to health, moreover, is a treaty obligation with clear obligations. Despite robust international norms, unconscionable health disparities exist between the world’s rich and poor, causing enormous suffering. The WHO urges “closing the health gap in a generation” through action on the social determinants of health. As the Marmot Commission observed: “the social conditions in which people are born, live, and work are the single most important determinant of good or ill …