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The State Giveth And Taketh Away: Race, Class, And Urban Hospital Closings, Shaun Ossei-Owusu
The State Giveth And Taketh Away: Race, Class, And Urban Hospital Closings, Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Chicago-Kent Law Review
This essay uses concepts from Bernadette Atuahene’s book We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program to examine the trend of urban hospital closings. It does so by focusing specifically on the history of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, a charitable hospital in South Los Angeles, California that emerged after the Watts riots in 1965. The essay illustrates how Professor Atuahene’s framework can generate unique questions about the closing of urban hospitals, and public bureaucracies more generally. The essay also demonstrates how Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital’s trajectory hones some of Atuahene’s concepts in ways …
Torts--Strict Liability--A Hospital Is Strictly Liable For Transfusions Of Hepatitis-Infected Blood--Cunningham V. Macneal Memorial Hospital, Michigan Law Review
Torts--Strict Liability--A Hospital Is Strictly Liable For Transfusions Of Hepatitis-Infected Blood--Cunningham V. Macneal Memorial Hospital, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Recent Development will briefly trace the development of hospital liability for transfusions of hepatitis-infected blood and will analyze both the impact of Cunningham on that area of the law and the correctness of the Cunningham decision.