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on problems whose solutions cannot be left to the rough-and-tumble of the market and the political arena. We ought to set our own research agenda, rather than acquiesce in its distortion by external ... themes, generally with greater emphasis on the first two.f In so doing, bioethics follows a pattern of concern established by moral and political philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century. The
defensible last chance rationing decisions if the political philosophy that shaped the functioning of our managed care plan were libertarian, communitarian (Ezekiel Emanuel's vision), or liberal (in the ... presumptively just claims on health resources? Second, what should be the political-philosophical framework of managed care plans responsible for making these last chance rationing decisions? That is, would we be
addressed these disenfranchisements, including legal scholars who analyze their validity under U.S. constitutional law and international-human-rights law, philosophers and political scientists who analyze ... reviews the current state of the debate across these fields and makes three contentions: (a) pragmatic political considerations have blurred the distinction between disenfranchisement provisions based on
It is a common realization that neither unconstrained markets nor our current political institutions are capable of governing our health care system. The cost of health care is spinning dangerously ... host of relatively well-understood market failures.' Moreover, our traditional political institutions-Congress and the executive administrative agencies-have also failed us in this respect. These
the legislation. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scoring of each proposal during the legislative process became a focus of anticipation, debate, and controversy. Other, more political concerns became ... addressed efforts to achieve broader delivery and payment reform only in relatively limited ways,' 0 in part due to the political compromises 4. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub. L. No. 111
the ethical construct of biomedical research with the concepts of life and death, health and healing. In this piece, I provide an overview of the political and scientific history of the embryonic stem
, JUSTICE, AND FREEDOM: THE MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF JOHN STUART MILL (1984). The distinction of Mills' views from Bentham's is discussed at page 12; proofs of the happiness principle are taken up ... the International Bill of Human Rights (1948),6 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966, revised 1994),' the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966
Medicare pays for at least half of the hospital and medical expenses incurred by America's elderly and disabled. It is also periodically the object of intense political debate, marked by exaggerated ... . Over the past decade and a half, this political attention has had less and less to do with legitimate concerns about budget deficits and Medicare's real (if usually overstated) faults. Instead, it has
imagination sufficient to place structural reform of medical litigation on the American political agenda. One enlightened response to mounting concerns over medical error and liability has been a partial shift ... they have gained a foothold in the public imagination 5 sufficient to place structural reform of medical litigation on the American political agenda.6 One enlightened response to mounting concerns over
Socrates and the oracle, I am indebted to LEO STRAUSS, Jerusalem and Athens: Some PreliminaryReflections, in LEO STRAUSS: STUDIES IN PLATONIC POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 147, 171 (1983). 17. XENOPHON, supra note ... CAREGIV1NG IN OUR AGING SOCIETY 113 (2005). what he was. Death thus becomes the vindication of philosophy, of truth opposed to opinion, wise questioning opposed to ignorant certainty, without the
, political, and economic conditions make it impossible for patients to receive life-saving therapies. On a practical level, there are clearly constraints: Merck's primary role in global health is to discover ... . The enormity of the pandemic seemed to be creating institutional and political gridlock.' Meanwhile, people were dying prematurely and HIV infections were continuing to spread. Merck set out to create a
addiction. The obstacles to these goals are no less frustrating and dismaying than before the MSA, however, with progress impeded by the enormous political and economic power of Big Tobacco. A major
Choice. Throughout this paper, our general philosophy is that “set” should become “language in P” and “function” should become “function in FP.” Where there are several obvious choices for how to
imagination sufficient to place structural reform of medical litigation on the American political agenda. One enlightened response to mounting concerns over medical error and liability has been a partial shift ... they have gained a foothold in the public imagination 5 sufficient to place structural reform of medical litigation on the American political agenda.6 One enlightened response to mounting concerns over
greater attention to the processes for resolving them. This Article examines how legal, political, and economic change produced a new adjudicatory mechanism for resolving disputes between patients and MCOs ... remedies) and their legislative and political histories. It then applies due process criteria to these systems. I argue that these laws fully satisfy neither the due process nor the deference paradigm, nor
limiting speech in that both can be potentially intrusive. They invite society and government to enter areas in the life of persons that no liberal political philosophy views as legitimately accessible to ... necessary change is located as much on a social, political, legal, and ethical level as it is on a physiological level. that the justification of the right should be rooted in the right's intrinsic value and
requirements. The Board faced strong public and political opposition to the passage of the ordinance, even from those that typically support anti-obesity and other public health initiatives. San Francisco Mayor ... specific nutritional requirements.2 The Board faced strong public and political opposition to the passage of the ordinance, even from those that typically support anti-obesity and other public health
because the general American political, economic, and social commitment to public health as an endeavor is weak, and has been so for many years. The political resurrection of public health seems a ... creation and destruction of human embryos for stem cell research, there is virtually no * Evelyne Shuster is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
categorical, that is, can admit a fixed number of possible values. For example, it could be gender, blood type, or political orientation. A prominent example of categorical data is binary data, where the points
subject to abrogation by a non-judicial body whose members answered to a political appointee. Although Oil States addressed a patent directed to technology in the energy industry, the failed challenge to ... , since it could be challenged and invalidated by the judiciary. Justice Gorsuch and Chief Justice Roberts dissented, echoing the concern of Oil States that political appointees may be more likely than
