Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

The Ethical Health Lawyer: An Empirical Assessment of Moral Decision Making

Joshua E. Perry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Ilene N. Moore, affiliation not provided to SSRN
Bruce Barry, Vanderbilt University
Ellen Wright Clayton, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Amanda R. Carrico, Vanderbilt University
December 10, 2008
Abstract:
Writing in 1999, legal ethics scholar Brad [...]

Cancer to be the World’s Leading Killer by 2010

According to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s leading cause of death by 2010. The increase in mortality attributable to cancer is due, in large part, to the increase of tobacco consumption in developing countries–particularly in China and India, where 40% of the [...]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 60

On Wednesday, December 10, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, considered the foundation of international human rights law and the first universal statement on the basic principles of inalienable human rights, turned 60.  The declaration was passed in recognition of “the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human [...]