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American Midwifery Litigation And State Legislative Preferences For Physician-Controlled Childbirth, Stacey A. Tovino
American Midwifery Litigation And State Legislative Preferences For Physician-Controlled Childbirth, Stacey A. Tovino
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From the colonial period to the Great Depression, lay midwives attended a large proportion of deliveries that occurred in the United States. As late as 1900, midwife-attended home births accounted for approximately one-half of all births in the United States. By 1950, however, physicians attended more than eighty percent of all deliveries in the hospital setting. Historians have analyzed and interpreted birth statistics, medical textbooks, medical school curricula, minutes of medical society meetings, public health reports, articles in medical journals and popular magazines, letters from laboring mothers, diaries of midwives, legislative committee reports, and state legislation to identify issues of …
Use And Disclosure Of Protected Health Information For Research Under The Hippa Privacy Rule, The: Unrealized Patient Autonomy And Burdensome Government Regulation, Stacey A. Tovino
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This article offers a legal and ethical analysis of the requirements of federal privacy regulations (herein after the “Privacy Rules”) relating to the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information for research activities. Section II of this article provides a legal summary of the Privacy Rules’ complex research provisions. Sections III and IV of this article analyze the Privacy Rules’ research provisions from a legal and ethical perspective. Specifically, Section III addresses whether the Privacy Rules promote autonomy by analyzing certain of the legal rights attributed to individuals who are the subjects of health information including: (1) the general …
Feeding Tubes, Slippery Slopes, And Physician-Assisted Suicide, David Orentlicher, Christopher M. Callahan Md
Feeding Tubes, Slippery Slopes, And Physician-Assisted Suicide, David Orentlicher, Christopher M. Callahan Md
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Not So Peaceful Coexistence: Inherent Tensions In Addressing Tort Law Reform, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Not So Peaceful Coexistence: Inherent Tensions In Addressing Tort Law Reform, Jeffrey W. Stempel
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As Professor Michael Green's comments trenchantly remind us, all of this has a familiar ring: insurers and tort defendants claim unfairly escalating liability, plaintiffs' lawyers and consumer groups counterattack, and (for the most part), insurers and defendants obtain some of the relief they seek. The tort reform victories are not so overwhelming as to completely unravel the historical rights of victims or the power of courts generally, but some constriction of rights inevitably occurs. During periods of quiescence, plaintiffs and consumers take back some lost territory through common law victories expanding claimant rights, or through specific legislation. Statutes that permitted …