Solving The Problem Of Organ Donation Shortage,
2015
Temple University
Solving The Problem Of Organ Donation Shortage, Samuel D. Hodge Jr., Nicole Marie Saitta-Gill
University of Baltimore Law Review
Organ donation, a medically perfected procedure, affords a second chance at life for many people. Unfortunately, organ transplantation demonstrates the stark reality of supply and demand. Thousands of individuals are added to the transplant list each day, but many more die during the same time frame waiting for new organs. The solution to this dilemma seems simple: increase the supply. This article will discuss several ways to achieve this goal. First, through the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, which allows for HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive transplants, more transplantable organs will hopefully be available in the future. Second, the supply of organs may increase …
Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired: Putting An End To Separate And Unequal Health Care In The United States 50 Years After The Civil Rights Act Of 1964,
2015
Saint Louis University School of Law
Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired: Putting An End To Separate And Unequal Health Care In The United States 50 Years After The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Ruqaiijah A. Yearby
All Faculty Scholarship
Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, the U.S. health care system has been structured to be racially separate and unequal. Ninety-nine years later, the enactment of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) was supposed to put an end to this racially separate and unequal health care system by mandating equal access to health care for all races. However, fifty years later, African Americans continue to receive separate and unequal treatment compared to Caucasians, in hospitals, nursing homes, and physician offices. As a result, racial disparities in health status and access to health …
Shifting Our Focus From Retribution To Social Justice: An Alternative Vision For The Treatment Of Pregnant Women Who Harm Their Fetuses,
2015
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
Shifting Our Focus From Retribution To Social Justice: An Alternative Vision For The Treatment Of Pregnant Women Who Harm Their Fetuses, April L. Cherry
Journal of Law and Health
The ways in which society responds to pregnant women whose behavior purportedly harms their fetuses can be explored from a variety of legal vantage points. This article argues that the criminal law model currently used is ineffective. The assignment of criminal liability to pregnant women is often rooted in fetal personhood and maternal deviance discourse. Criminal law solutions fail because they fail to take into account the fact that maternal behavior is often the result of a myriad of the social and economic conditions over which pregnant women have little or no control. The criminal law model, therefore, simply punishes …
Reproductive Justice, Public Policy, And Abortion On The Basis Of Fetal Impairment: Lessons From International Human Rights Law And The Potential Impact Of The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities,
2015
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Reproductive Justice, Public Policy, And Abortion On The Basis Of Fetal Impairment: Lessons From International Human Rights Law And The Potential Impact Of The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Carole J. Petersen
Journal of Law and Health
This article argues that we should consider not only American constitutional law but also comparative law and emerging international human rights norms, in order to navigate the difficult issue of abortion on the basis of fetal impairment. The United States is a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)13 and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). It is also a signatory (but not a full State Party) to several other relevant treaties, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the …
Traumatic Brain Injury And The Law: Introduction,
2015
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Traumatic Brain Injury And The Law: Introduction, Sean O'Brien, Kenneth D. Ferguson
Faculty Works
Introduction to UMKC Law Review symposium issue focusing on the intersection of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and the law.
Developments In Synthetic Biology Are Altering The Ip Imperatives Of Biotechnology,
2015
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Developments In Synthetic Biology Are Altering The Ip Imperatives Of Biotechnology, Christopher M. Holman
Faculty Works
While the accomplishments of the biotechnology industry have been substantial, recent technological advances promise to dramatically increase the power and utility of the discipline over the coming years. The term “synthetic biology” has been coined to describe the application of these powerful new tools to the engineering of synthetic genetic sequences and organisms. In essence, synthetic biology represents the next iteration in the ongoing evolution of biotechnology, and hopes run high that in time, the fruits of synthetic biology will dwarf the past successes of conventional biotechnology. There is, however, some concern that the current patent-centric approach to Intellectual Property …
Will Neuroscience Redefine Mental Injury?: Disability Benefit Law, Mental Health Parity Law, And Disability Discrimination Law,
2015
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Will Neuroscience Redefine Mental Injury?: Disability Benefit Law, Mental Health Parity Law, And Disability Discrimination Law, Stacey A. Tovino
Faculty Articles
No abstract provided.
From Bibles To Biomarkers: The Future Of The Dsm And Forensic Psychiatric Diagnosis,
2015
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
From Bibles To Biomarkers: The Future Of The Dsm And Forensic Psychiatric Diagnosis, Teneille R. Brown
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
Given its importance to the law, it is regrettable that judges and lawyers do not fully understand how the DSM is constructed, and the bedrock of values on which it rests. As evidence of this, lawyers and judges often refer to the DSM as the “psychiatric bible.” This language is both fascinating and perplexing. This Article will attempt to correct the notion that the DSM is a legal “psychiatric bible” by explaining how it is created and used by the medical field. It will also provide a few reasons why the law may have come to view it as a …
Denying Death,
2015
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Denying Death, Teneille R. Brown
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
Terminal cancer patients are being kept in the dark about the purpose of their care. Several studies show that these patients undergo expensive and painful interventions because they are holding out hope for a cure, even when their physicians know that a cure is very unlikely. The current Medicare reimbursement system encourages this false hope by incentivizing physicians to medicate and operate on patients, rather than to talk about whether or why to do these things. Our culture also encourages this false hope by treating cancer as a war that must be won. As a result, patients are admitted to …
Taking Physicians Out Of The Straitjacket: Defending Physician Free Speech Rights By Defining The "Truthful And Nonmisleading" Standard,
2015
University of Kentucky
Taking Physicians Out Of The Straitjacket: Defending Physician Free Speech Rights By Defining The "Truthful And Nonmisleading" Standard, Kathryn E. Meyer
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Picturing Moral Arguments In A Fraught Legal Arena: Fetuses, Photographic Phantoms And Ultrasounds,
2015
Boston University School of Law
Picturing Moral Arguments In A Fraught Legal Arena: Fetuses, Photographic Phantoms And Ultrasounds, Jessica Silbey
Faculty Scholarship
This article investigates the movement in the U.S. that seeks to regulate the abortion decision by mandating ultrasounds prior to the procedure. The article argues that this reform effort is misguided not only because it is ineffective, but also because ultrasounds provide misleading information and are part of shaming practices that degrade the dignity of women. Both of these problems violate the main tenets of Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992). Central to the article’s argument and novelty is that the pro-ultrasound movement’s mistake is both legal and cultural. It misunderstands the nature of visual technology by failing …
Stem Cell Patents After The America Invents Act,
2015
New York Law School
Stem Cell Patents After The America Invents Act, Jacob S. Sherkow, Christopher Scott
Articles & Chapters
Under the newly passed Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may hear new challenges to stem cell patents. Here, we explore how the new law affects challenges to stem cell patents, focusing on two recent cases, and discuss the future of stem cell patent disputes.
Conceiving Of Products And The Products Of Conception: Reflections On Commodification, Consumption, Art, And Abortion,
2015
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Conceiving Of Products And The Products Of Conception: Reflections On Commodification, Consumption, Art, And Abortion, Jody L. Madeira
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This paper rejects the dichotomy between patient and consumer roles and focuses instead on how attributes of each are meaningful to those seeking health care. Arguing that health care is already commodified, it suggests that both medicine and the market offer strategies for handling commodification. The important questions are how we understand these attributes and their role in care relationships, and which attributes we should encourage. The medical profession and patient role have long accommodated commodification, using fiduciary roles, flat fees and opaque pricing to distance payment and pricing from care provision. In contrast, the market and consumer role emphasize …
Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising,
2015
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino
Faculty Articles
Grateful patient fundraising, defined as the solicitation of philanthropic donations by health care providers from current and former patients, raises a number of legal and ethical issues. Elsewhere, I detailed the confidentiality issues raised by the use and disclosure of patient identifiable information by hospital development officers, major gifts officers, institutionally-related foundations, and commercial fundraisers, and proposed corrections to federal health information confidentiality regulations to better balance the competing aims of health care philanthropy and health information confidentiality. In this Article, I analyze several outstanding issues raised by physician involvement in grateful patient fundraising. That is, physicians who solicit philanthropic …
The Dsm-5: Implications For Health Law,
2015
University of Oklahoma College of Law
The Dsm-5: Implications For Health Law, Stacey A. Tovino
Faculty Articles
In May 2013, the American Psychiatric Association released the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ("DSM-5"). Among other changes, the DSM-5 includes new entries for hoarding disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder as well as a reclassified entry for gambling disorder. Using these changes as examples, this Article examines the implications of the DSM-5 for key issues in health law, including health insurance coverage, public and private disability benefit eligibility, and disability discrimination protection. As a descriptive matter, this Article illustrates how the addition of new disorders and the reclassification of existing disorders in the DSM-5 …
Do Physicians Respond To Liability Standards?,
2015
Duke Law School
Do Physicians Respond To Liability Standards?, Michael D. Frakes, Matthew Frank, Seth Seabury
Faculty Scholarship
In this paper, we explore the sensitivity in the clinical decisions of physicians to the standards of care expected of them under the law, drawing on the abandonment by states over time of rules holding physicians to standards determined by local customs and the contemporaneous adoption of national-standard rules. Using data on broad rates of surgical interventions at the county-by-year level from the Area Resource File, we find that local surgery rates converge towards national surgery rates upon the adoption of national-standard rules. Moreover, we find that these effects are more pronounced among rural counties.
Digital Medicine, The Fda, And The First Amendment,
2015
Michigan State University College of Law
Digital Medicine, The Fda, And The First Amendment, Adam Candeub
Georgia Law Review
Digital medicine might transform healthcare more fundamentally than the introduction of anesthesia or germ basis theory of disease. Already, tens of thousands of "medical apps" are available for smartphones. These computer applications can measure blood pressure, pulse, lung function, oxygenation level, sugar level, breathing rate and body temperature-and can even diagnose skin cancer, analyze urine, and take an echocardiogram. In fall 2013, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) asserted regulatory authority over mobile medical applications and other digital medical services, threatening to chill, if not, destroy this innovation. This Article argues that the FDA stands on firm legal ground regulating medical …
Medical Staff Boot Camp,
2014
University of San Diego
Medical Staff Boot Camp, Rick D. Barton
Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics
No abstract provided.
Who's Swallowing The "Bitter Pill"?: Reforming Write-Offs In The State Of Washington,
2014
Seattle University School of Law
Who's Swallowing The "Bitter Pill"?: Reforming Write-Offs In The State Of Washington, Lauren M. Martin
Seattle University Law Review
Washington’s application of the collateral source rule permits recovery for medical expenses that were never incurred and have no relationship to their market value. This application is set forth in Hayes v. Wieber Enterprises, Inc., where the plaintiff sued a restaurant for injuries she sustained from falling down the restaurant’s basement stairs. Why should the collateral source rule compel the defendant in Hayes to pay the original amount billed, $5,800, when the physician accepted $3,300 as payment in full? Is not $3,300 the reasonable or market value of the medical services provided to the plaintiff? This Comment discusses whether Washington …
"When Has The Grim Reaper Finished Reaping?" How Embracing One Religion's View Of Death Can Influence Acceptance Of The Uniform Determination Of Death Act,
2014
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
"When Has The Grim Reaper Finished Reaping?" How Embracing One Religion's View Of Death Can Influence Acceptance Of The Uniform Determination Of Death Act, Kenneth Shuster
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
