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1989

Faculty Scholarship

Law and medicine

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Doctors And Lawyers And Wolves, George J. Annas Jul 1989

Doctors And Lawyers And Wolves, George J. Annas

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Relations between lawyers and physicians, and therefore between law and medicine, are getting more and more destructive and counterproductive. It used to be a joke, but it's not funny anymore. We can't afford the continuing and escalating acrimony between our professions and it's time that we take constructive steps in the public interest to deal with it.


Health Law At The Turn Of The Century: From White Dwarf To Red Giant, George J. Annas Apr 1989

Health Law At The Turn Of The Century: From White Dwarf To Red Giant, George J. Annas

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The evolution of stars is inexorable. From the form in which we currently view our own Sun, it and similar stars eventually expand as their exteriors cool to become red giants. When a red giant runs out of fuel, its exposed core will collapse to form a degenerate white dwarf and, eventually, a dead black dwarf.1 Health law, as a discipline worthy of our attention, seems to have an opposite trajectory: from black dwarf to white dwarf, it is now on its way to becoming a red giant. The relevance of health law and the reasons for its exponentially …