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Access to Affordable Medicines: Obligations of Universities and Academic Medical Centers
(Steven Joffe, Rena M. Conti, Jorge L. Contreras, et al.)
Gene Therapy
(2023)
Over the last decade, the development and approval of remarkably effective therapeutic interventions, many based on technologies directed at the human genome, have altered the treatment landscape for patients facing a range of serious and ...
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How Should State Licensing and Credentialing Boards Respond When Government Clinicians Spread False or Misleading Health Information?
(Allison M. Whelan)
America Medical Association Journal of Ethics
(2023)
The spread of health misinformation by health care professionals who also hold government positions represents a long-standing problem that intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes this problem and considers legal and other response ...
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Aggravating Inequalities: State Regulation of Abortion and Contraception
(Allison M. Whelan)
Harvard Journal of Law and Gender
(2023)
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Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?
(Allison M. Whelan)
Bill of Health
(2022)
Abortion Rights and Disability Equality: A New Constitutional Background
(Allison M. Whelan and Michele Goodwin)
Washington and Lee Law Review
(2022)
Abortion rights and access are under siege in the United States. Even while current state-level attacks take on a newly aggressive scale and scope-- emboldened by the United States Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in ...
The PREP Act and the Countermeasures Injury Compensation: Past, Present, and Future
(Allison M. Whelan)
DePaul Law Review
(2022)
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, ushered in an era of legislative reform to bolster the United States' ability to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, including pandemics and acts of *690 ...
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Executive Capture of Agency Decisionmaking
(Allison M. Whelan)
Vanderbilt Law Review
(2022)
The scientific credibility of the administrative state is under siege in the United States, risking distressful public health harms and even deaths. This Article addresses one component of this attack—executive interference in agency scientific decisionmaking. ...
Unequal Representation: Women in Clinical Trials
(Allison M. Whelan)
Cornell Law Review Online
(2021)
This Article engages with legal and social history to analyze the present-day consequences of two distinct, yet related historical wrongs: the exclusion of pregnant women and women of child-bearing potential from medical research and the ...
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Denying Tax-Exempt Status to Discriminatory Private Adoption Agencies
(Allison M Whelan)
UC Irvine Law Review
(2018)
Lowering the Age of Consent: Pushing Back Against the Anti-Vaccine Movement
(Allison M. Whelan)
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
(2016)
This Article examines how the law, despite legislative intent, has accomodated the anti-vaccination movement. It elaborates on the harms resulting from the law's deference to vaccine opposition, situating the Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV) vaccine within ...
Constitutional Exceptionalism
(Michele Goodwin and Allison M. Whelan)
University of Illinois Law Review
(2016)
Reproduction and the Rule of Law in Latin America
(Michele Goodwin and Allison M. Whelan)
Fordham Law Review
(2015)
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Reproduction and the Rule of Law in Latin America
(Michele Goodwin and Allison M. Whelan)
Fordham Law Review
(2015)
When Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez was rushed to [the] hospital after giving birth to a stillborn baby boy, the doctors first treated her life-threatening bleeding and then called the police, who handcuffed her to the bed. ...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Moral Dilemmas of Informal Caregiving
(Allison M. Whelan)
Binghamton Journal of Philosophy
(2014)
This paper analyzes the moral dilemmas encountered by informal caregivers and makes suggestions for how these burdens can be eased. It first discusses the moral dilemmas and resulting moral regrets experienced by caregivers, providing some ...
Perinatal Hospice
(Allison M. Whelan)
Rutgers Journal of Bioethics
(2014)
This essay reviews the emerging concept of perinatal hospice as a way to support mothers who are carrying pregnancies that are expected to end in stillbirths or neonatal death. The paper reviews scholarly literature, as ...
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That's My Baby: Why the State's Interest in Promoting Public Health Does Not Justify Residual Newborn Blood Spot Research without Parental Consent
(Allison M. Whelan)
Minn.L.Rev.
(2013)
Popular Press
(6)
FDA Can Expand Reproductive Care Through Access to Safe Medication Abortion
(Allison M. Whelan)
Philadelphia Inquirer
(2021)
FDA Issues New Guidance for Development of COVID-19 Drugs and Biological Products
(Denise Esposito, Kristie Gurley and Allison M. Whelan)
Covington Alert
(2020)
CMS Revises Medicare Part B Biosimilar Coding and Payment Policies
(Stefanie A. Doebler, Michael K. Stern and Allison M. Whelan)
Covington Alert
(2017)
Pakistan’s “Last-Ditch Effort” To Eradicate Polio
(Allison M. Whelan)
Bill of Health
(2015)
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The Great Vaccination Debate Rages On: Is There Any Solution?
(Allison M. Whelan)
Bill of Health
(2015)
Federal Newborn Screening Law Emphasizes Informed Consent
(Allison M. Whelan)
Bill of Health
(2015)
Contribution to Book
(2)
Law, Bioethics and Biotechnology
(Michele Goodwin and Allison M. Whelan)
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(2015)
This article examines the emergence of bioethics as a legal discourse and the relationship between technology and bioethics. As a field of study, bioethics functions as a tool to analyze the multifaceted conundrums presented by ...
Women's Inequality and the Rule of Law: Latin America and Reproductive Rights
(Michele Goodwin and Allison M. Whelan)
The Rule of Law in the 21st Century: A Worldwide Perspective
(2015)
