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The Expense Of Expanding The Right To Die: A Trilogy, Dawn R. Smith

Georgia State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Health Omnibus Aids Bill, M. Severson

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act comprises a comprehensive package of legislation relating to AIDS. In general, the Act provides procedures and standards for HIV testing in both the criminal and civil contexts; delineates the requirements for confidentiality and counseling regarding AIDS information; provides criminal sanctions for HIV-infected individuals who know they are infected but fail to inform either their sexual partners or those with whom they share needles or syringes; requires the receipt of an AIDS information brochure prior to issuance of a marriage license; and defines HIV as contagious.

A Need For Caring, Judith Areen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public edited by Harlon L. Dalton, Scott Burris and the Yale AIDS Law Project

Aids In The Workplace: Termination, Discrimination And The Right To Refuse, J Scott Kenney

Dalhousie Law Journal

Not since the days of leprosy has there been a disease so feared and so fatal as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). The lack of knowledge about the disease has merely compounded the problem, so that not only AIDS victims themselves, but also members of perceived "high-risk" groups, face increasing discrimination in all facets of their lives. This paper will focus on only one of these contexts: the workplace. After a review of the current medical knowledge, two principal questions wifl-be examined: (i) What protection does the law give AIDS victims, or members of highrisk groups, against discrimination in employment? (ii) …

Civil Liberties In The Crucible: An Essay On Aids And The Future Of Freedom In America, Paul R. Joseph

Nova Law Review

It has been said that, "hard cases make bad law."

Emerging Issues Of Aids And Insurance, Allan H. Terl

Nova Law Review

The public focus thus far in the AIDS crisis has been primarily on two legal issues: employment discrimination and education.

Meeting The Aids Epidemic In The Courtroom: Practical Suggestions In Litigating Your First Aids Case, William L. Earl, Judith Kavanaugh

Nova Law Review

From Anaheim to Arcadia, from Wall Street to Steubenville, America's lawyers - like it or not - are confronting the AIDS epidemic.

Aids Prevention - Too Little, Too Late, Neil R. Schram M.D.

Nova Law Review

In 1988 virtually every American knows there is a major AIDS epidemic.

Liability For Post-Transfusion Aids: An Analysis And Proposal, Lawrence K. English

Journal of Law and Health

The nature of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic and the methods used to protect the blood supply from contamination by the AIDS virus indicate that an increasing number of actions seeking recovery for post-transfusion infection may reach the courts in the next decade. The theories under which plaintiffs usually seek relief for transfusion-related infection - e.g., negligence or strict liability - lead to complex factual, procedural, and public policy problems which do not readily lend themselves to consistent, just adjudication.

The Aids Agenda, Roger I. Abrams

Nova Law Review

We are about to experience a terrible catastrophe.

Aids: A Brief Overview, Dr. Ronald K. Wright M.D., J.D.

Nova Law Review

By the late 1970's an epidemic begun in Central Africa which spread world wide by the mid 1980's.

Aids Discrimination: Its Nature, Meaning And Function, David I. Schulman

Nova Law Review

AIDS is like a stain on a microscopic slide, highlighting pre-existing chronic social problems the way a stain brings into sharp relief the characteristics of certain organisms.

Aids, Race, And The Law: The Social Construction Of Disease, Norman Nickens

Nova Law Review

The existing literature on AIDS and the law has been largely silent on the issue of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in minority communities, despite the disproportionate impact of AIDS upon these communities, and despite the fact that the "literature on behavior change suggests the importance of considering sociocultural and psychological characteristics of a population in the promotion of certain health behaviors and practices."

Local Public Health Perspectives On The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) Epidemic, Charles Konigsberg Jr, M.D., M.P.H.

Nova Law Review

This article focuses on the perspectives and roles of local public health officials dealing with a wide variety of aspects of the AIDS epidemic, including epidemiology, surveillance, public health control measures, community organization and patient care and treatment networks.

Children With Aids: A Need For A Clear Policy And Procedure For Public Education, Laura F. Rothstein

Nova Law Review

One cannot open a newspaper, watch the television news, or even watch a favorite sitcom without being aware of the degree to which Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has permeated our society.

Aids: A Global View, Robert M. Jarvis

Nova Law Review

Wherever there are people, there is AIDS.

Liability For Transmission Of Aids In The Hospital Workplace: A Critique Of Mandatory Aids Testing Of Hospital Patients, Anne Shaffer

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Hospital's Dilemma: The Legal Implications Of Promulgating Guidelines Concerning Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Leonard C. Heath Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

Fear has struck the workplace. The source of this fear is not lack of job security, inflation, recession or a concern about the United States' trade imbalance. The source of the fear is a disease--Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-and the virus that causes AIDS, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

Aids, Health-Care Workers, And Workers' Compensation In Virginia, M. Grey Sweeney

University of Richmond Law Review

The recent explosion of medical malpractice litigation has heralded the era of defensive medicine. Health-care professionals at all levels of the industry have been forced to evaluate both the lawsuit potential as well as the life sustaining potential of every act and treatment.' Since 1981, however, the threat of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has added a third, more threatening, perspective to the way health-care workers must view their actions. The average doctor or nurse must balance not only the medical and legal significance of every action, but must also consider whether an action might result in exposure to AIDS.

Protecting Persons With Aids From Employment Discrimination, Erica Horn

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Fda's Aids Program, John A. Norris J.D., M.B.A.

Nova Law Review

The Conquest of AIDS - under the leadership of President Reagan - is the Nation's number one public health priority.

Aids In Perspective, Edmund C. Tramont

Nova Law Review

AIDS is about people, not statistics and headlines.

Legal Issues In The Healthcare Settings Aids: Current State Of The Law - An Overview, Carol A. Mclaughlin

Journal of Law and Health

Presented as part of an address on the current state of the law at the AIDS Symposium held at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law on March 11, 1988.

Annotated Bibliography On Aids, Edmund F. Santa Vicca

Journal of Law and Health

This bibliography was included in the AIDS Symposium held at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law on March 11, 1988 as a helpful reference guide. The Journal would like to thank Edmund Santa Vicca for his ever continuing support in the quest for knowledge.

A Crisis In Insurance, Benjamin Lipson

New England Journal of Public Policy

As the life and health insurance industry evaluates its long-term financial goals, the cloud of Black Monday — October 19, 1987, the day the stock market collapsed — blurs its cherished investment income projections. With investment portfolios under siege, mutual life insurance companies and stock companies alike are wary of making policy-pricing miscalculations that could prove to be disastrous. As if that weren't enough, one single disease — acquired immunodeficiency syndrome — looms as the most serious threat to life and health insurers for the remainder of this century. The spread of the new disease has caused insurers to adjust …

The Aids Epidemic: A Prism Distorting Social And Legal Principles, Alec Gray

New England Journal of Public Policy

The AIDS epidemic is affecting American society in far-reaching and unexpected ways. It touches our institutions, our value systems, and our private lives. Social issues seem to change and become distorted by the epidemic 's prismlike effect. This article examines some of the major public health issues raised by the epidemic, ranging from testing to contact tracing and quarantine. It argues that while the civil rights of individuals may have to be sacrificed to stem the spread of the disease, those rights should not be abandoned unless a clear benefit to the public health would result.

Issues of discrimination in …