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Adoption, Reproductive Technologies And Genetic Information, Lori B. Andrews Jan 1998

Adoption, Reproductive Technologies And Genetic Information, Lori B. Andrews

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Is There A Right To Clone? Constitutional Challenges To Bans On Human Cloning, Lori B. Andrews Jan 1998

Is There A Right To Clone? Constitutional Challenges To Bans On Human Cloning, Lori B. Andrews

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Do The Dead Have Interests? Policy Issues For Research After Life (With D. Nelkin), Lori B. Andrews Jan 1998

Do The Dead Have Interests? Policy Issues For Research After Life (With D. Nelkin), Lori B. Andrews

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Checkpoints On The Conversion Highway: Some Trouble Spots In The Conversion Of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations To For-Profit Status, James J. Fishman Jan 1998

Checkpoints On The Conversion Highway: Some Trouble Spots In The Conversion Of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations To For-Profit Status, James J. Fishman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This essay does not address the truly important policy issues: whether for-profit healthcare should be allowed or encouraged; how the quality of care compares to nonprofits or what criteria should be used to evaluate the quality of care; or what the impact of these conversions is on the communities they serve. It discusses less significant issues: those of process—how can we shape and control this tidal wave of change so that the public will be served and charitable assets preserved to the maximum extent possible? The focus is upon the valuation of these charitable assets; the appropriate process of conversion; …


Aids As A Chronic Illness: A Cautionary Tale For The End Of The Twentieth Century, Linda C. Fentiman Jan 1998

Aids As A Chronic Illness: A Cautionary Tale For The End Of The Twentieth Century, Linda C. Fentiman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The result of the monumental shifts in the structure and financing of health care delivery is that at the very time that medical innovations have made possible significant improvements in the quality and quantity of life for people with chronic illnesses, those who are responsible for paying for Americans' health care, in government and the private sector, seem to have finally said “Enough! We must cut costs, and cut them dramatically, and the simplest, most direct way of cutting costs is to deny coverage for certain kinds of treatments and certain kinds of illnesses.” People with HIV and AIDS are …