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Full-Text Articles in Torts
When The Surgeon Has Hiv: What To Tell Patients About The Risk Of Exposure And The Risk Of Transmission, Phillip L. Mcintosh
When The Surgeon Has Hiv: What To Tell Patients About The Risk Of Exposure And The Risk Of Transmission, Phillip L. Mcintosh
Journal Articles
This Article explores the legal aspects of the dilemma facing an HIV-infected surgeon with respect to whether the doctrine of informed consent requires, or can require, disclosure of the surgeon's HIV-infection under some circumstances. This Article then examines the nature of the risks associated with HIV as they affect patients during surgery. Next, this Article evaluates whether the risks are sufficiently material to require disclosure (or at least to present a jury question), and, in any event, whether state law can require such disclosure under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). In particular this Article examines the doctrine …
Prescription Drug Design Liability Under The Proposed Restatement (Third) Of Torts: A Reporter's Perspective, James A. Henderson Jr.
Prescription Drug Design Liability Under The Proposed Restatement (Third) Of Torts: A Reporter's Perspective, James A. Henderson Jr.
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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