Symposium – Patient-Centered Law and Ethics
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When Doctors Become “Patients”: Advocating a Patient-Centered Approach for Health Care Workers in the Context of Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations and Informed Consent
In the 1991 movie The Doctor, William Hurt plays the protagonist, Dr. Jack McKee, a renowned yet callous surgeon who… Read More
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Rights Talk and Patient Subjectivity: The Role of Autonomy, Equality, and Participation Norms
The great majority of individuals have related to the health care system primarily as patients. For most of the history… Read More
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Can a Patient-Centered Ethos Be Other-Regarding? Ought It Be?
The American health care system is built on a significant conceptual tension that grows more intense with each passing year;… Read More
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Should the Patient Conquer?
As we confront the critical challenges of implementing national health care reform, however, whether the patient should conquer is a… Read More
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Can Health Law Truly Become Patient-Centered?
Close to a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine (“IOM”) report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for… Read More
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Test-Driving “Patient-Centered Health Law”
“Patient-centeredness” accommodates itself to a wide range of often contradictory perspectives about the nature of the good in health care.… Read More
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Different Ways to Understand Patient-Centered Health Law
Patient-centeredness cannot be all things to all people. The law, by its nature, decides between competing conceptions of what is… Read More
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Musings on Patient-Centered Law and Ethics
What exactly might “patient-centered” law or ethics mean? Let’s start by reflecting on what it might mean for any body… Read More
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Patient-Centered Care as a Response to Medification
Two points strike me as foundational for making sense of patient-centered care (“PCC”). First, PCC stands for something everyone wants;… Read More
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Patient-Centered Health Law and Ethics
Within academic health law, it has become commonplace to consider health law as involving four principal concerns: “quality, autonomy, access,… Read More