Gun Violence: Potential Interventions and Legal Limitations
In 2018, the American College of Physicians (ACP) joined the growing number of organizations calling for a public health approach to gun violence in an article in the Annals of...
Workplace wellness programs are all the rage. In a study mandated by the Affordable Care Act for the Department of Labor, the Rand Corporation reported…that, in 2012, ??oeabout half of employers with at least 50 employees, and more than 90 percent of those with more than 50,000 employees offered a wellness program.??? Moreover, a 2011 Aon Hewitt employer survey found that ??oenearly 47 percent of employers without a wellness program planned to…
In an article in JAMA on how to slow health care spending, noted Harvard health economist David Cutler states that a ??oemajor direction??? for health care reform is ??oeto ensure…that physicians who adhere to guideline standards know that lawsuits based on providing that care will be rapidly dismissed.??? The notion that medical practice guidelines should be conclusively presumed to establish the legal standard of care for physicians, referred to as a ??oesafe harbor??? approach, is not new;…
??oeOf all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane,??? Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The largest disparity in health…status in the United States is between African-Americans and whites. Some argue that biological differences between racial groups are the cause of these racial disparities. However, as proven by the Human Genome Project and noted by Nancy Krieger, the biological race theory is based on three…
A complex patchwork of laws governs the medical treatment of minors. Though many aspects of children’s medical care are straightforward and require no more than the informed consent of the…parent, in some areas the law creates numerous potential pitfalls for clinicians who care for children and adolescents. In addition, the legal rules themselves may at times be amorphous or inconsistent. This Cyberounds® will provide an overview of the legal rules concerning medical decision-making by and on behalf of children…
Neuroethics is a relatively new field within bioethics, concerned with the ethical, legal and social impact of neuroscience. It emerged in response to the rapid development of neuroscience in…the late 20th century, including our understanding of human cognition and emotion along with functional neuroimaging (fMRI), which became widely available in the 1990s.
As a result of the maturation of cognitive and affective neuroscience, neuroscience can now be applied to solving problems in many spheres of human life…
Authors:
Martha J. Farah, Ph.D., and Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D.
The legal and ethical protections regarding confidentiality of medical information have undergone significant scrutiny in the past few years, and a variety of new legislation and changes to current legislation…have recently been promulgated at both the federal and state levels. Developments in electronic media as well as advances in genetic medicine have challenged our traditional understanding of "personal" information and privacy. As a result, there have been various attempts to craft privacy protections in different settings. This Cyberounds® provides…
