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Mandatory Chemical Castration For Perpetrators Of Sex Offenses Against Children: Following California's Lead, Peter J. Gimino Iii
Mandatory Chemical Castration For Perpetrators Of Sex Offenses Against Children: Following California's Lead, Peter J. Gimino Iii
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Federally Mandated Informed Consent: Has Government Gone Too Far, Linda P. Mckenzie
Federally Mandated Informed Consent: Has Government Gone Too Far, Linda P. Mckenzie
Journal of Law and Health
Laws mandating disclosure of particular information are known as informed consent laws. They exist primarily in the area of reproductive health and most often apply to women seeking abortion. This article discusses the legal and ethical issues that arise when lawmakers decide what patients must be told before they can access certain medical procedures. Part II examines some of the ethical implications of informed consent laws. Physicians have a duty to obtain a patient's informed consent before acting. Part III discusses legal concerns raised by informed consent laws. These include the First Amendment free speech rights of physicians and patients' …
One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure, Bioprospecting: Protecting The Rights And Interests Of Human Donors Of Genetic Material, Anne Nichols Hill
One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure, Bioprospecting: Protecting The Rights And Interests Of Human Donors Of Genetic Material, Anne Nichols Hill
Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
No abstract provided.
Minors As Medical Decision Makers: The Pretextual Reasoning Of The Court In The Abortion Cases, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Minors As Medical Decision Makers: The Pretextual Reasoning Of The Court In The Abortion Cases, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
By examining the Court's failure to consider the allocation of authority between parents and children in the critical realm of medical decision making, this article exposes the irrationality of the Court's acceptance of limitations on the abortion rights of minors and reveals the pronatalist thrust of the parental involvement decisions. The article begins by looking at how the Roe Court characterized abortion as a medical decision, followed by a discussion about the medical decision-making rights of minors. Rooted in this medical paradigm, the article then turns to the parental involvement cases to examine the Court's failure to consider the medical …
Florida's 1997 Chemical Castration Law: A Return To The Dark Ages, Larry Helm Spalding
Florida's 1997 Chemical Castration Law: A Return To The Dark Ages, Larry Helm Spalding
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel: People V. Allah
Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel: People V. Allah
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Personality Testing By The Schools: A Possible Invasion Of Privacy, Angelika Hoyman
Personality Testing By The Schools: A Possible Invasion Of Privacy, Angelika Hoyman
IUSTITIA
Contemporary critics, concerned with the maintenance of personal privacy, have termed the use of personality tests a "white glove rack and screw" . Monroe H. Freedman, Dean of Hofstra University School of Law, while testifying before a congressional subcommittee, compared the use of psychological tests to the administration of truth serums and found both to be an affront to personal dignity.
Nevertheless, the 1960's witnessed a three-fold increase in the number of school counselors employed in most schools and a nation-wide survey of these counselors indicated that at least one-third of their time was spent in dealing with the personal …