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Articles 1 - 18 of 18
Full-Text Articles in Health Law and Policy
Featured Speaker, Girls In The United States Justice System, Francine Sherman
Featured Speaker, Girls In The United States Justice System, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
No abstract provided.
Featured Speaker, Social Welfare V. Social Control: Juvenile Justice In The United States, Francine Sherman
Featured Speaker, Social Welfare V. Social Control: Juvenile Justice In The United States, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
No abstract provided.
Massachusetts Department Of Youth Services, Spectrum Girls Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman
Massachusetts Department Of Youth Services, Spectrum Girls Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
No abstract provided.
Dys Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman
Dys Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
No abstract provided.
Moderator, Clark County Girls Symposium On Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Francine Sherman
Moderator, Clark County Girls Symposium On Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
Assisted Las Vegas and surrounding county to reduce the use of detention for girls and address the needs of sexually exploited girls.
Massachusetts Health Passport Project Evaluation Final Report, Francine Jacobs, Rachel Oliveri, Jesica Greenston, Claudia Miranda-Julian
Massachusetts Health Passport Project Evaluation Final Report, Francine Jacobs, Rachel Oliveri, Jesica Greenston, Claudia Miranda-Julian
Francine T. Sherman
Prepared for Francine Sherman, Esq., Director, Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School. Adapted from the Executive Summary: The Massachusetts Health Passport Project (MHPP) began in April 2004, as a pilot program of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School under the direction of Francine Sherman, Esq. The program was originally called the Girls’ Health Passport Project (GHPP) and was designed to address the unmet health needs and gaps in health care services for girls committed to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) and re-entering their communities from DYS assessment and treatment facilities. An …
Speaker, Girls In The United States Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman
Speaker, Girls In The United States Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
No abstract provided.
Parents Should Not Be Legally Liable For Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children, Jay Gordon
Parents Should Not Be Legally Liable For Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children, Jay Gordon
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
Should a parent who takes advantage of a personal belief exemption to avoid vaccinating a child be held liable if that child infects other people? No, because there are valid medical reasons for choosing this exemption and tracing direct transmission of these illnesses from an unvaccinated child to another person is virtually impossible.
The Problem Of Vaccination Noncompliance: Public Health Goals And The Limitations Of Tort Law, Daniel B. Rubin, Sophie Kasimow
The Problem Of Vaccination Noncompliance: Public Health Goals And The Limitations Of Tort Law, Daniel B. Rubin, Sophie Kasimow
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
Imposing tort liability on parents who fail to vaccinate their children would not serve the public health and public policy interests that drive childhood immunization efforts. The public policy goals of vaccination are to slow the spread of disease and to reduce mortality and morbidity. Our country’s public health laws already play a substantial role in furthering these goals. Although application of tort law may be an appropriate response to some of the problems that result from vaccination noncompliance, there also is a need to cultivate public understanding of the connection between individual actions and collective wellbeing. It is doubtful …
Gambling With The Health Of Others, Stephen P. Teret, Jon S. Vernick
Gambling With The Health Of Others, Stephen P. Teret, Jon S. Vernick
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
The health and wellbeing of the public is, in part, a function of the behavior of individuals. When one individual’s behavior places another at a foreseeable and easily preventable risk of illness or injury, tort liability can play a valuable role in discouraging that conduct. This is true in the context of childhood immunization.
Unintended Consequences: The Primacy Of Public Trust In Vaccination, Jason L. Schwartz
Unintended Consequences: The Primacy Of Public Trust In Vaccination, Jason L. Schwartz
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
The increasing availability of personal belief exemptions from state vaccination requirements is a growing concern among proponents of vaccination. Holding parents of non-vaccinated children liable to those they infect is among the responses proposed to maintain high vaccination rates. Even if motivated by a sincere desire to maximize the benefits of vaccination throughout society, such a step would be inadvisable, further entrenching opponents of vaccination and adding to the atmosphere of confusion and unnecessary alarm that has become increasingly common among parents of children for whom vaccination is recommended.
Challenging Personal Belief Immunization Exemptions: Considering Legal Responses, Alexandra Stewart
Challenging Personal Belief Immunization Exemptions: Considering Legal Responses, Alexandra Stewart
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
Public health agencies and citizens should employ legal approaches to hold parents accountable for refusing to vaccinate their children. The judiciary would craft an effective response to defeat the threat posed by these parents. Public-nuisance law may offer a legal mechanism to hold vaccine objectors liable for their actions.
Choices Should Have Consequences: Failure To Vaccinate, Harm To Others, And Civil Liability, Douglas S. Diekema
Choices Should Have Consequences: Failure To Vaccinate, Harm To Others, And Civil Liability, Douglas S. Diekema
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
A parent’s decision not to vaccinate a child may place others at risk if the child becomes infected and exposes others to the disease. Should an individual harmed by an infection transmitted from a child whose parents chose to forgo vaccination have a negligence claim against those parents? While I do not hold a legal degree and therefore cannot speak directly to issues of law, as a physician and ethicist it seems to me that the basic elements that comprise negligence claims—harm, duty, breach of duty, and causation—are met in some cases where parents forgo vaccination.
Safety First: Recognizing And Managing The Risks To Child Participants In Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research, Matthias Schmidt, Jocelyn Downie
Safety First: Recognizing And Managing The Risks To Child Participants In Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research, Matthias Schmidt, Jocelyn Downie
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Specialized and up-to-date knowledge is required to identify and manage the risks associated with advanced biomedical research. Additional complexities need to be considered when the research involves infants or young children. In this article, we focus on recent information about the physical risks of pediatric magnetic resonance imaging research and highlight information gaps. With an eye to assisting institutional review boards and researchers, we consider strategies for the management of these risks and formulate key questions aimed at exposing hidden hazards. Institutional review boards should ask these questions, and researchers should bear them in mind as they develop research protocols.
Evolutionary Theory And Kinship Foster Care: An Initial Test Of Two Hypotheses, David J. Herring, Jeffrey J. Shook, Sara Goodkind, Kevin H. Kim
Evolutionary Theory And Kinship Foster Care: An Initial Test Of Two Hypotheses, David J. Herring, Jeffrey J. Shook, Sara Goodkind, Kevin H. Kim
Articles
Public child welfare systems increasingly rely on kin to serve as foster parents. This study tests two hypotheses concerning kinship foster care that have been formulated based on evolutionary theory and behavioral biology research. The first hypothesis is that on average foster children are likely to benefit from higher levels of parental investment and realize better outcomes if placed with kin rather than non-kin foster parents. The second hypothesis is that on average children in kinship foster care placements are likely to benefit from higher levels of parental investment and realize better outcomes if placed with some types of kin …
Decisional Dignity: Teenage Abortion, Bypass Hearings, And The Misuse Of Law, Carol Sanger
Decisional Dignity: Teenage Abortion, Bypass Hearings, And The Misuse Of Law, Carol Sanger
Faculty Scholarship
How might we think about reforming abortion regulation in a world in which the basic legality of abortion may, as a matter of constitutional law, at last be relatively secure? I have in mind the era just upon us in which the overturn of Roe v. Wadeno longer looms so threateningly over the reproductive rights community in the United States and is no longer necessarily its central concern. There is now a general and seemingly well-founded optimism that under the Obama administration, those who support and rely on reproductive rights will not have to pray nightly for the health …
Clark County, Nevada, Consultant, 2007, Francine Sherman
Clark County, Nevada, Consultant, 2007, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
Assisted Las Vegas and surrounding county to reduce the use of detention for girls and address the needs of sexually exploited girls.
Reframing The Response: Girls In The Juvenile Justice System And Domestic Violence, Francine Sherman
Reframing The Response: Girls In The Juvenile Justice System And Domestic Violence, Francine Sherman
Francine T. Sherman
This article provides an overview of the role gender plays in juvenile justice processing. It reviews national data on girls’ arrest patterns and links those patterns to girls’ underlying needs and trauma histories. The article then focuses on the increase in arrests of girls for domestic assaults and describes the experience of Washoe County, Nevada, where girls were detained disproportionately for domestic battery as a result of a mandatory detention law. The article goes on to describe Nevada’s successful effort to amend that law to increase discretion and mandate family services and the resulting improvements in services to girls experiencing …