Healthism - Health-Status Discrimination and the Law

Examines when and why discrimination based on health status - or 'healthism' - should be allowed, and when it should not.

List of contents

1. What is healthism?; 2. Understanding healthism; 3. Limits of antidiscrimination and privacy laws; 4. Limits of health insurance law; 5. Limits of private law; 6. Testing healthism.

About the author

Jessica L. Roberts directs the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. A noted expert on diverse issues of health law, she has been interviewed by the BBC World Service, the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, and National Public Radio. She has participated in a congressional briefing on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, presented at NASA, and served as a consultant for the Football Players Health Study at Harvard. Professor Roberts is also a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and a Health Policy Scholar with Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy.Elizabeth Weeks is Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of Georgia School of Law. In addition to numerous law review articles and book chapters, she is co-author of The Law of American Health Care (2016). She is past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine and Bioethics, and has received numerous awards and honors, including the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics Health Law Scholars Award, University of Kansas Docking Faculty Scholar Award and the University of Kansas School of Law Immel Teaching Award.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica L. Roberts, Jessica L. Weeks Roberts, Elizabeth Weeks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781316613429
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61342-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / Health, Social discrimination & inequality, Medical & healthcare law, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Medical and healthcare law, Social discrimination and social justice