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That Wonderful Year: Smallpox, Genetic Engineering, And Bio-Terrorism, David A. Koplow
That Wonderful Year: Smallpox, Genetic Engineering, And Bio-Terrorism, David A. Koplow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The thesis of this Article is that the United States, Russia, and by extension, the world as a whole, are pursuing a fundamentally sound strategy in retaining, rather than destroying, the last known remaining samples of the variola virus. For now, those samples are housed in secure, deep-freeze storage at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia and at the comparable Russian facility, known as Vector, near Novosibirsk, Siberia. But that basic decision is about the only correct move we are making at this time - and even it is animated by fundamental misapprehensions about …
The Invention Of Health Law, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
The Invention Of Health Law, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
By default, the courts are inventing health law. The law governing the American health system arises from an unruly mix of statutes, regulations, and judge-crafted doctrines conceived, in the main, without medical care in mind. Courts are ill-equipped to put order to this chaos, and until recently they have been disinclined to try. But political gridlock and popular ire over managed care have pushed them into the breach, and the Supreme Court has become a proactive health policy player. How might judges make sense of health law's disparate doctrinal strands? Scholars from diverse ideological starting points have converged toward a …