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Full-Text Articles in Law
Book Review, Ann Marie Wheatcraft
Book Review, Ann Marie Wheatcraft
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of: ROBERT H. BLANK, MOTHER AND FETUS: CHANGING NOTIONS OF MATERNAL RESPONSIBILITY. (Greenwood Press 1992) [207 pp.], Appendix, bibliography, figures, index, preface, tables. LC-91- 38029; ISBN 0-313-27639-0. [$45.00 cloth. 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881.]
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number Four, Fall 1992, Risk Editorial Board
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number Four, Fall 1992, Risk Editorial Board
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number Three, Summer 1992, Risk Editorial Board
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number Three, Summer 1992, Risk Editorial Board
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number Two, Spring 1992, Risk Editorial Board
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number Two, Spring 1992, Risk Editorial Board
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number One, Winter 1992, Risk Editorial Board
Table Of Contents, Volume Three, Number One, Winter 1992, Risk Editorial Board
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Table of contents for the journal Risk: Issues in Health & Safety (ISSN: 1073-8673).
Book Review, Hugh H. Gibbons
Book Review, Hugh H. Gibbons
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Reviews of the following books: K. S. SHRADER-FRECHETTE, Risk AND RATIONALITY (U. California Press 1991) [312 pp.] Index of Names, Index of Subjects, Notes. CIP 91-3294; ISBN 0-520-07287-1 (Cloth $39.95); ISBN 0-520-07289-8 (Pbk. $15.95). [2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720.] W. KIP VisCusi, REFORMING PRODUCTS LIABILITY (Harvard U. Press 1991). [270 pp.] Appendices, bibliography, index, notes. CIP 90-23161, ISBN 0-674-75323-2 (Cloth $39.95). [79 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138.]
Risky Business: Setting Public Health Policy For Hiv-Infected Health Care Professionals, George J. Annas
Risky Business: Setting Public Health Policy For Hiv-Infected Health Care Professionals, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
In JULY 1991, THE UNITED STATES SENATE VOTED 81 to 18 to impose a $10,000 fine and a ten-year jail sentence on any HTV-infected physicians who treated patients without disclosing their HIV status. Senator Jesse Helms, the sponsor of the measure, explained his rationale: “Let the punishment fit the crime. . . . I believe in horsewhipping. I feel that strongly about it” (Tolchin 1991). Later, Senator Helms wrote that HIV-infected physicians who practice medicine “should be treated no better than the criminal who guns down a helpless victim on the street” (Helms 1991). In his article he explained that …
The Case Against Strict Liability, Alan Schwartz
The Case Against Strict Liability, Alan Schwartz
Fordham Law Review
Professor Schwartz identifies the foundational assumptions of strict products liability law, and argues that these assumptions are either false, not supportive of banishing free contract, or not proven on the current evidence. After showing that, on the evidence now available, strict liability cannot be shown to be more efficient than free contract, Professor Schwartz argues that the choice among legal regimes should be made by a "representative consumer"--a person who knows what is knowable about markets and who knows that he lives in a liberal state, but who does not know what position he will occupy in that state. Professor …
The Concept Of Baseline Risk In Tort Litigation, Vern R. Walker
The Concept Of Baseline Risk In Tort Litigation, Vern R. Walker
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Tort Law As A Comparative Institution, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Tort Law As A Comparative Institution, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.