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Revisionism Misplaced: Why This Is Not The Time To Bury Autonomy, David J. Rothman Jan 1999

Revisionism Misplaced: Why This Is Not The Time To Bury Autonomy, David J. Rothman

Michigan Law Review

For the past twenty years, bioethics has exerted a profound influence on American medicine. Although its full impact cannot be precisely measured, one need only speak to European physicians and clinical investigators to grasp the full extent of the change. Americans may debate the sufficiency of the information that physicians share with their patients, but hear a European doctor exclaim angrily that it is criminal to ask a woman to decide whether to have a radical mstectomy or lumpectomy, and you know that bioethics has made a significant difference in the United States. So too, Americans, far more intensely than …


Waltz & Inbau: Medical Jurisprudence, Marcus L. Plant Jan 1972

Waltz & Inbau: Medical Jurisprudence, Marcus L. Plant

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Medical Jurisprudence by Jon R. Waltz and Fred E. Inbau


Scientific Proof And Relations Of Law And Medicine, John E. Tracy Apr 1943

Scientific Proof And Relations Of Law And Medicine, John E. Tracy

Michigan Law Review

Ever since lawyers first began the practice of employing expert witnesses in cases where there were questions of fact to be determined, involving the existence and extent and the causes of bodily ailments, these experts-physicians, surgeons, anatomists, chemists, pathologists, and roentgenologists-have been generous in their proffering of advice to the practicing attorney as to the matters to which his preparation for trial should be directed, the proper theories to be adopted by him as to recovery or damages and his methods of examining and cross-examining witnesses of this character. The shelves of any large law library will be found to …


Administering Justice The Medical Prepossession, Clarence A. Lightner Jun 1919

Administering Justice The Medical Prepossession, Clarence A. Lightner

Michigan Law Review

This quotation is from a recent document coming from con- servative and intelligent sources, recommending as a cure for economic and commercial unrest, and other evils, the creation of a League of National Guilds.