Caring for mum and dad: lesbian women negotiating family and navigating care

This article reports on findings from a qualitative study that explored the experiences of twenty-one gay men and lesbian women who care, or cared, for a person with dementia in England.The aim of the study was to explore how a person's gay or lesbian sexuality might impact upon their experience of providing care in this context. Analysis of the data identified a number of consistent themes - carers' experiences of the early signs and symptoms of dementia, of receiving the diagnosis, becominga carer and their hopes and fears for the future in light of their care-giving experiences. The article reports on one theme that emerged from the wider study - the strategies lesbian carers used to negotiate the complex and contested category of the 'family' in the context of their care-giving experiences. The findings highlight the variety of ways in which families, of both biology and choice, were central to respondents' experiences of providing care for parents with dementia and of receiving support for themselves

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Torts-- Federal Preemption of State Common Law-- Federal Cigarette Labeling & Advertising Act

This case note examining Supreme Court\u27s landmark preemption decision in Cipollone v. Liggett Group

The Evolution of Health Care Decision Making: The Political Paradigm and Beyond

The ascendancy of the political paradigm as the primary mode of health care decision-making is a natural evolutionary reaction to the unrestrained market paradigm. Although a certain of political intrusion into the health care marketplace is both necessary and useful, it has the potential to unravel the efficiencies achieved by managed care. Overzealous intervention in the health care market in the name of reform may cause the health care decision-making pendulum to swing back to the provider paradigm, with its tendency to escalate health care costs and diminish access. One possible way to achieve decision-making equilibrium and and end the cycling of extremist mono-paradigmatic dominance is to inject into the provider-patient-payer triad a neutral third party, a fiduciary whose duty is to guard the best interests of the patient, to stand as an informed agent between the financially self interested provider and payer

Does the FDA Have Authority to Regulate Human Cloning?

Examines the FDA\u27s statutory authority to regulate human cloning

Constitutional Fidelity and the Commerce Clause: A Reply to Professor Ackerman

Can the Constitution be legitimately, albeit implicitly, amended by the Supreme Court? The possibility of implicit constitutional amendment - most forcefully advocated by Professor Bruce Ackerman as transformative Supreme Court decisions - has been articulated to justify, legitimate, and entrench various radical reinterpretations of the Constitution, most notably the New Deal Court\u27s vast expansion of the power to regulate commerce. The article concludes that such implicit constitutional amendments are theoretically illegitimate and provide strong disincentives for We the People to become politically active in order to correct flaws in the original Constitution or interpretations thereof that are deemed no longer normatively desirable. They bypass the process of amendment provided for in Article V and encourage popular political lethargy and judicial paternalism

Teaching the Elephant to Dance: Privatizing the FDA Review Process

Considers the implications of privatizing the Food and Drug Administration\u27s (FDA) review of the safety and efficacy of medical devices and drugs. Concludes that the FDA\u27s flaws - namely, a risk avoidance culture and autocratic style of regulation - can only be accomplished by breaking the agency\u27s monopolization of this review function

Toward a Unified Theory of Products Liability: Reviving the Causative Concept of Legal Fault

This paper explores the concept of causative fault – with an emphasis on proximate and actual cause – as a substitute for modern strict liability