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L' Interpretazione Costitutzionale Negli Stati Americani, Charles Baron Aug 2013

L' Interpretazione Costitutzionale Negli Stati Americani, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


Aspects Relatifs Au Mouvement Des Droits Des Malades Aux Etats-Unis, Charles Baron Aug 2013

Aspects Relatifs Au Mouvement Des Droits Des Malades Aux Etats-Unis, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson Jan 1996

Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Transboundary environmental problems do not distinguish between political boundaries. Global warming is expected to cause thermal expansion of water and melt glaciers. Both are predicted to lead to a rise in sea level. We must enlarge our paradigms to encompass a global reality and reliance upon global participation.


L' Interpretazione Costitutzionale Negli Stati Americani, Charles Baron Dec 1995

L' Interpretazione Costitutzionale Negli Stati Americani, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


Aspects Relatifs Au Mouvement Des Droits Des Malades Aux Etats-Unis, Charles Baron Dec 1995

Aspects Relatifs Au Mouvement Des Droits Des Malades Aux Etats-Unis, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan, Robert B. Leflar Dec 1995

Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan, Robert B. Leflar

Robert B Leflar

This article analyzes the development of the concept of informed consent in the context of the culture and economics of Japanese medicine, and locates that development within the framework of the nation's civil law system. Part II sketches the cultural foundations of medical paternalism in Japan; explores the economic incentives (many of them administratively directed) that have sustained physicians' traditional dominant roles; and describes the judiciary's hesitancy to challenge physicians' professional discretion. Part III delineates the forces testing the paternalist model: the undermining of the physicians' personal knowledge of their patients that accompanies the shift from neighborhood clinic to high-tech …