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Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley Mar 2002

Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley

New England Journal of Public Policy

This issue of the journal can be summed up in one word: provocative. At least two articles break new ground. Anthony Robbins and Phyllis Freeman explore the ways in which environmentally oriented public health is uniquely suited to help organized medical care in providing health and in restraining expenditures. Janet Farrell Smith challenges policymakers to look at what will soon become a hot issue — the medical use of genetic information. The genetic testing of children, now becoming prevalent in the foster care and pre-adoptive stage in order to facilitate placement and satisfy prospective parents’ “need to know,” is already …


Genetic Testing: A Cautionary Tale Of Foster And Pre-Adoptive Children, Janet Farrell Smith Mar 2002

Genetic Testing: A Cautionary Tale Of Foster And Pre-Adoptive Children, Janet Farrell Smith

New England Journal of Public Policy

Genetic testing of children in the foster care and pre-adoptive stage may be thought to facilitate child placement and satisfy prospective parents’ need to know. But, the policy analysis in this paper recommends great caution, especially given eugenic attitudes in the history of adoption and the risk of creating a second tier of un-adoptable children. Testing should be done only when two conditions are satisfied: test information is medically useful for childhood onset diseases; test information supports and does not diminish the child’s access to present and future healthcare (or the child’s future insurability). Public policy needs to make a …


Regulation Of Research With Children: The Evolution From Exclusion To Inclusion, Duane Alexander Jan 2002

Regulation Of Research With Children: The Evolution From Exclusion To Inclusion, Duane Alexander

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


(Women And) Children First: Applicable To Lifeboats? Applicable To Human Experimentation?, Lainie Friedman Ross, M. Justin Coffey Jan 2002

(Women And) Children First: Applicable To Lifeboats? Applicable To Human Experimentation?, Lainie Friedman Ross, M. Justin Coffey

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


The Lead-Based Paint Abatement Repair & Maintenance Study In Baltimore: Historic Framework And Study Design, Joanne Pollak Jan 2002

The Lead-Based Paint Abatement Repair & Maintenance Study In Baltimore: Historic Framework And Study Design, Joanne Pollak

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Parental Consent For Children's Participation In Biomedical Research: The Ethical, Regulatory, And Judicial Framework Of Grimes V. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc., Karen Smith Thiel Jan 2002

Parental Consent For Children's Participation In Biomedical Research: The Ethical, Regulatory, And Judicial Framework Of Grimes V. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc., Karen Smith Thiel

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


The Kennedy Krieger Case: Judicial Anger And The Research Enterprise, Jack Schwartz Jan 2002

The Kennedy Krieger Case: Judicial Anger And The Research Enterprise, Jack Schwartz

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.