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An Untapped Resource In Addressing Emerging Infectious Diseases: Traditional Healers, Amy Guerin Thompson Oct 1998

An Untapped Resource In Addressing Emerging Infectious Diseases: Traditional Healers, Amy Guerin Thompson

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


A National Bill Of Patients' Rights, George J. Annas Jan 1998

A National Bill Of Patients' Rights, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

In one of the most enthusiastically received proposals in his January State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton called on Congress to enact a national bill of rights in health care. The President said, “You have the right to know all your medical options, not just the cheapest. You have the right to choose the doctor you want for the care you need. You have the right to emergency room care, wherever and whenever you need it. You have the right to keep your medical records confidential.”


Crossing The Line: The Political And Moral Battle Over Late-Term Abortion, Rigel C. Oliveri Jan 1998

Crossing The Line: The Political And Moral Battle Over Late-Term Abortion, Rigel C. Oliveri

Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on the political and moral debate surrounding two pieces of federal legislation which sought to criminalize a particular late term abortion technique scientifically known as "intact dilation and extraction," and popularly known as "partial birth abortion." The Congressional "Partial Birth Abortion" Bans of 1996 and 1997 inflamed the already emotionally charged contest over abortion rights. The intense lobbying and advocacy efforts put pro-choice activists in the uncomfortable position of having to defend one of the most extreme positions on the abortion-rights spectrum. The advocacy was further complicated by the fact that very few women obtain late term …


Codification Des Regles Internationales Relatives Aux Personnes Deplacees A L'Interieur De Leur Pays: Un Domaine Ou Les Considerations Touchant Aux Droits De L'Homme Et Au Droit Humanitaire Sont Prises En Compte, Robert K. Goldman Jan 1998

Codification Des Regles Internationales Relatives Aux Personnes Deplacees A L'Interieur De Leur Pays: Un Domaine Ou Les Considerations Touchant Aux Droits De L'Homme Et Au Droit Humanitaire Sont Prises En Compte, Robert K. Goldman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.


Partial-Birth Abortion, Congress, And The Constitution, George J. Annas Jan 1998

Partial-Birth Abortion, Congress, And The Constitution, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

The political debate over abortion during the past 25 years has shifted among various dichotomous views of the world: life versus choice, fetus versus woman, fetus versus baby, constitutional right versus states' rights, government versus physician, physician and patient versus state legislature. Hundreds of statutes and almost two dozen Supreme Court decisions on abortion later, the core aspects of Roe v. Wade, 1 the most controversial health-related decision by the Court ever, remain substantially the same as they were in 1973. Attempts to overturn Roe in both the courtroom and the legislature have failed. Pregnant women still have a constitutional …


Combating Discrimination Against Aids Patients In Tanzania, Nicole Grimm Jan 1997

Combating Discrimination Against Aids Patients In Tanzania, Nicole Grimm

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Hiv/Aids And Human Rights In Mexico, Fernando González-Martín Jan 1996

Hiv/Aids And Human Rights In Mexico, Fernando González-Martín

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Women And Children First, George J. Annas Jan 1995

Women And Children First, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

In the lore of the sea there are few events that have so exemplified heroism and self-sacrifice as the acts of the soldiers and sailors of the British ship Birkenhead when it sank in 1852. The soldiers of the 74th Highland Regiment stood at attention on deck (with the band playing) “while the women and children were saved and the captain very properly went down with his ship.” More than 450 lives were lost, and the phrase “women and children first” was introduced into the language as part of the “Birkenhead drill.” As Kipling put it in his poem …


Reframing The Debate On Health Care Reform By Replacing Our Metaphors, George J. Annas Jan 1995

Reframing The Debate On Health Care Reform By Replacing Our Metaphors, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

Metaphors matter, as our sterile debate on the fi-nancing of health insurance demonstrates so well. In that debate the traditional metaphor of American medicine, the military metaphor, was displaced by the market metaphor in public discourse. Metaphors, which entice us to understand and experience “one kind of thing in terms of another . . . play a central role in the construction of social and political reality.” The market metaphor proved virtually irresistible in the public arena and led Congress to defer to market forces to “reform” the financing of health insurance in the United States.


Unblinded Mandatory Hiv Screening Of Newborns: Care Or Coercion?, Linda Farber Post Aug 1994

Unblinded Mandatory Hiv Screening Of Newborns: Care Or Coercion?, Linda Farber Post

Cardozo Law Review

The image of mother and child is perhaps the most universal symbol of love and protection. The concept of mother and sick child evokes instant compassion and the desire to do somethinganything-to help the mother help her baby. When the disease is both incurable and fatal, there is the expectation that the combined efforts of the state and the medical community will be mobilized to intervene on behalf of those who are afflicted. This Note looks at one such attempt and considers, not the good intentions that prompted it, but the legal ramifications of its implementation.


Rethinking Wrongful Life: Bridging The Boundary Between Tort And Family Law, Philip G. Peters Jr. Jan 1993

Rethinking Wrongful Life: Bridging The Boundary Between Tort And Family Law, Philip G. Peters Jr.

Faculty Publications

Traditional tort law embraces an unduly narrow notion of corrective justice that fails to resolve wrongful life disputes satisfactorily. The unique circumstances associated with the creation of a new life bring into play another, broader paradigm of responsibility: one that resembles family law more than tort. From this perspective, children whose birth can be attributed to tortious conduct have a strong moral claim for supplemental child support whenever a tortfeasor's interference with the pro- creative rights of the parents foreseeably results in the birth of a child and that child's parents cannot provide adequate support. In such an instance, the …


Health Warnings, Smoking, And Cancer - The Cipollone Case, George J. Annas Jan 1992

Health Warnings, Smoking, And Cancer - The Cipollone Case, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

The figures have become familiar. Tobacco use has been declared "the single most important preventable cause of [premature] death in the United States, accounting for one of every six deaths, or some 390,000 deaths annually. "The health goals of the nation for the year 2000 call for reducing the prevalence of cigarette smoking to 15 percent among adults (a 48 percent decrease from the current 29 percent) and reducing the rate of beginning smoking among teenagers to 15 percent (a 50 percent decrease from the current rate of 30 percent). The goal of reducing smoking in the United States is …


Qualified Plans And Identifying Tax Expenditures: A Rejoinder To Professor Stein, Edward A. Zelinsky Oct 1991

Qualified Plans And Identifying Tax Expenditures: A Rejoinder To Professor Stein, Edward A. Zelinsky

Articles

No abstract provided.


Effectiveness Of The Epa's Regulatory Enforcement: The Case Of Industrial Effluent Standards, W. Kip Viscusi, Wesley A. Magat Oct 1990

Effectiveness Of The Epa's Regulatory Enforcement: The Case Of Industrial Effluent Standards, W. Kip Viscusi, Wesley A. Magat

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The EPA water pollution regulations-the focus of this study- represent an interesting departure from past patterns of regulatory failure. First, the nature of the regulations-discharge limits-relates directly to the policy objective of controlling pollution, and there is no potential for offsetting behavioral responses. If the pollution standards are binding and enforced, they should improve water quality. Second, the enforcement effort is so extensive that enforcement should affect firms' compliance. In the pulp and paper industry, which we will analyze, the EPA averages roughly one inspection annually per major pollution source. In addition, firms are required to file monthly discharge monitoring …


The Law And Economics Of Organ Procurement, Keith N. Hylton Jul 1990

The Law And Economics Of Organ Procurement, Keith N. Hylton

Faculty Scholarship

This paper presents an economic analysis of the organ procurement system in the U.S. and examines proposals to alleviate the shortage of transplantable organs. The paper's principal conclusions are: (1) Although non-market solutions deserve the highest priority, demand increases fueled by improvements in transplant technology will probably make some market-based solution necessary in the future. (2) Quality deterioration and coercion will not necessarily be worrisome problems under a market-based procurement system.


Rationality Review And The Politics Of Public Health, Scott Burris Jan 1989

Rationality Review And The Politics Of Public Health, Scott Burris

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The State's Interest In The Preservation Of Life: From Quinlan To Cruzan, Philip G. Peters Jr. Jan 1989

The State's Interest In The Preservation Of Life: From Quinlan To Cruzan, Philip G. Peters Jr.

Faculty Publications

This article considers the kinds of limits on withholding that each of these policies might plausibly support, compares these limits to the judicial approaches taken in the refusal of treatment cases, and explores how apparent conflicts between these state goals and the interests of the patients might be resolved. Because this article focuses exclusively on the state's interests, however, it necessarily isolates and considers only one portion of a complex problem involving the interests of patients, families, providers, and others. No comprehensive examination of the nature and weight of the patient's interests or those of other involved parties is attempted. …


The Jurisprudence Of Prevention: The Right Of Societal Self-Defense Against Dangerous Individuals, Edward P. Richards Jan 1989

The Jurisprudence Of Prevention: The Right Of Societal Self-Defense Against Dangerous Individuals, Edward P. Richards

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


The Antitrust Analysis Of Hospital Mergers And The Transformation Of The Hospital Industry, Jonathan Baker Jan 1988

The Antitrust Analysis Of Hospital Mergers And The Transformation Of The Hospital Industry, Jonathan Baker

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.


Vertical Restraints Among Hospitals, Physicians And Health Insurers That Raise Rivals' Costs, Jonathan Baker Jan 1988

Vertical Restraints Among Hospitals, Physicians And Health Insurers That Raise Rivals' Costs, Jonathan Baker

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.


Cancer-Based Employment Discrimination: Whether The Proposed Amendment To Title Vii Will Provide An Effective Anti-Discrimination Remedy, Katherine J. Streicher Jul 1987

Cancer-Based Employment Discrimination: Whether The Proposed Amendment To Title Vii Will Provide An Effective Anti-Discrimination Remedy, Katherine J. Streicher

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Health In The Workplace, Barbara J. Fick Jan 1987

Foreword: Health In The Workplace, Barbara J. Fick

Journal Articles

This article is a brief foreword to the 1987 Notre Dame Law Review Symposium Issue.


The Determination Of Occupational Health And Safety Standards In Ontario 1860-1982: From Markets To Politics To...?, Eric Tucker Jan 1984

The Determination Of Occupational Health And Safety Standards In Ontario 1860-1982: From Markets To Politics To...?, Eric Tucker

Articles & Book Chapters

The author reviews the historical development of the decision-making frameworks within which courts and the Legislature have made choices regarding the allocation of risks to health and safety in the workplace. Arguing that this development has been conditioned by the necessity of satisfying in a capitalist democracy conflicting demands to facilitate capital accumulation and to justify to the electorate the manner in which choices regarding the structure of the processes of production have been made, the author contends that recent pressure to adopt cost-benefit analysis to satisfy the demands of legitimation and accumulation, and challenges its adequacy as a normative …


Retreat From The Right To Health Care: The President's Commission And Access To Health Care, John D. Arras Jan 1984

Retreat From The Right To Health Care: The President's Commission And Access To Health Care, John D. Arras

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Harris V. Mcrae, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1979

Harris V. Mcrae, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Emerging Concepts Of Federalism: Limitations On The Spending Power And National Health Planning Sep 1977

Emerging Concepts Of Federalism: Limitations On The Spending Power And National Health Planning

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Health Professions Educational Assistance Act Of 1976: A New Prescription?, John J. Greene Jan 1977

The Health Professions Educational Assistance Act Of 1976: A New Prescription?, John J. Greene

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The 1976 Health Professions Educational Assistance Act is a new congressional effort to promote the rational development, distribution, and utilization of the health professions through financial incentives. The Act represents a compromise solution to the issues affecting the quality, quantity and distribution of health manpower. It targets the four major problems of the current system: (1) the shortage of health professionals; (2) the geographic maldistribution of health manpower; (3) the specialty maldistribution of physicians and dentists; and (4) the influx of foreign medical graduates into the United States. This comment examines the effectiveness of past legislative responses to these issues …