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Introduction - Symposium Issue On Health Data Security Systems, Sharona Hoffman
Introduction - Symposium Issue On Health Data Security Systems, Sharona Hoffman
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Introduction to the Health Data Security System symposium 2012 Huston, TX.
All For One And One For All: Informed Consent And Public Health, Jessica Wilen Berg
All For One And One For All: Informed Consent And Public Health, Jessica Wilen Berg
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The concept of informed consent is well established in the field of bioethics, but its application is unclear in the area of public health. The increasing prevalence of public health interventions creates a need to analyze the scope of government power as it relates to individual choice. This Article explores three different types of public health measures in which individual choice has been limited: (1) environmental interventions; (2) classic public health interventions to prevent contagious disease; and (3) public health information reporting or use. The reasons for limiting informed consent vary depending on the context, and the implications for the …
Professional Power And The Standard Of Care In Medicine, Maxwell J. Mehlman
Professional Power And The Standard Of Care In Medicine, Maxwell J. Mehlman
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Since before the founding of the Republic, American medicine has been fighting a war to control the standard of care that physicians are expected to provide to their patients. It has waged battles on two fronts: against internal disagreements within the profession over what constitutes proper care, and against attempts to delineate the standard of care by forces outside the profession, such as private health insurers, the government, and the judicial system.