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- 1From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFrom the perspective of a preferential option for the poor, the right to health care, housing, decent work, protection against hunger, and other economic, social, and cultural necessities are as important as civil and...
- 2From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGreetings from faraway Australia. (1) We used to think that we were separated from the world's problems--at once victims and beneficiaries of the tyranny of distance. As recent events have shown, we are all liked...
- 3From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between law and a population's health is complex and poorly understood. To the extent that scholarship exists on the subject, it has usually focused on epidemics that are concentrated in relatively...
- 4From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOn March 21, 2002, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Happel v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1) that a pharmacy has a duty to warn a customer of a known drug contraindication (2) when the pharmacy is aware of both a...
- 5From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe conference on Health, Law and Human Rights: Exploring the Connections held last fall in Philadelphia was a telling moment in the complex history of a movement--the "health and human rights movement" for want of a...
- 6From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed[I]t is now clear that vulnerability to becoming infected with HIV derives directly from stigma and discrimination (and, more broadly, violations of human rights and dignity) occurring within each society. Thus, we have...
- 7From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn our experience, public health practitioners (rather than scholars) seeking to address a health problem often have just two very basic questions about the law: (1) how can I use the law to create new interventions, or...
- 8From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is one of the remarkable and significant consequences of the AIDS epidemic that out of the context of enormous suffering and death there emerged a forceful set of ideas linking the domains of health and human rights....
- 9From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn public health and the social sciences, there is growing recognition of the role that social context plays in determining health. (1) Frequently, social relations of inequality are among the most important features of...
- 10From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRespect for and promotion of the human rights of people with HIV/AIDS is now an entrenched component of the global response to HIV. However, as the global HIV epidemic has turned into a global AIDS epidemic, and as the...
- 11From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn Florida Board of Medicine v. Florida Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, (1) the Court of Appeals of Florida held that (1) the state Board of Medicine provided competent substantial evidence to validate rules requiring...
- 12From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedZoning laws determine what types of land uses and densities can occur on each property lot in a municipality, and therefore also govern the range of potential environmental and health impacts resulting from the land use....
- 13From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFew now question that population health is significantly shaped by social ecology. Power, wealth, and social status clearly matter: Their enactment in daily life makes them fundamental social determinants of health....
- 14From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe provision of police services and the suppression of crime is one of the first functions of civil government. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights speaks of a right to "security of person." "The term...
- 15From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMounting evidence suggests that socioeconomic status is a determinant of health. As nations around the globe increasingly rely on market-based economies, the corporate sector has come to have a powerful influence on the...
- 16From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe mission of public health is to provide the conditions in which people can be healthy, yet the bulk of public health resources are devoted to helping individuals cope with unhealthy conditions that are deemed beyond...
- 17From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPublic health is concerned with how to improve the population's health. At times, though, actions to improve the community's health may collide with individual civil rights. For example, a public health response to a...
- 18From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the foundational piece in this issue of the journal, "Integrating Law and Social Epidemiology," Burris, Kawachi, and Sarat present a model for understanding the relationship between law and health. (1) This article...
- 19From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDespite growing advances in medical technologies, health status inequalities continue to increase across the globe. (1) Developing countries have been faced with declining expenditures in health and social services,...
- 20From: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSocial epidemiology has made a powerful case that health is determined not just by individual-level factors such as our genetic make-up, access to medical services, or lifestyle choices, but also by social conditions,...