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Intersectional Complications of Healthism
(Marquette Benefits & Social Welfare Review, 2017)
For Americans in the labor market with health conditions that fall outside the scope of the ADA, the rehabilitation Act, and GINA, antihealthism legislation, like the kind proposed by Roberts and Leonard, 9would unquestionably ...
Unfulfilled Promises
(DePaul Law Review, 2016)
The passage of the ACA is a source of great pride for President Barack Obama's Administration, and the President undoubtedly hopes that the ACA will be his greatest legacy. 285 As a result, it is difficult to understand ...
Recognizing Our Dangerous Gifts: Applying the Social Model to Individuals with mental Illness
(Michigan State University Journal of Medicine and law, 2008)
Our society and laws allow a space for a multitude of identities and forms of expression. Many kinds of differences are legally protected in various ways, such as differences in race, religion, and gender. Sometimes ...
Screening and Treatment of Newborns
(Houston Law Review, 1992)
With the advent of new genetic technologies and the Human Genome Initiative, interest in the problems posed by genetic diagnostics in general, and by genetic screening in particular, has surfaced. Many recent works focus ...
Conducting a Large, Multi-Site Survey About Patients' Views on Broad Consent: Challenges and Solutions
(BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016)
As biobanks play an increasing role in the genomic research that will lead to precision medicine, input from diverse and large populations of patients in a variety of health care settings will be important in order to ...
The Failure of Breast Cancer Informed Consent Statutes
(Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 2008)
Informed consent is a common law concept rooted in the idea that "[e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body."' Its aim is to ensure that
each patient ...