Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten

This volume provides an alternate history of US health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective.

Seema Mohapatra (Edited by), Lindsay Wiley (Edited by)

9781108816922, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 December 2022

400 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.66 kg

This volume provides an alternate history of health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective. Each chapter includes a rewritten opinion penned by a leading scholar relying exclusively on court precedents and scientific understanding available at the time of the original decision accompanied by commentary from an expert placing the case in historical context and explaining how the feminist judgment might have shaped a different path for subsequent developments. It provides a map of the health law field-where paternalism, individualism, gender stereotypes, and tensions over the public-private divide shape decisions about informed consent, medical and nursing malpractice, the relationships among health care professionals and the institutions where they work, end-of-life care, reproductive health care, biomedical research, ownership of human tissues and cells, the influence of religious directives on health care standards, health care discrimination, long-term care, private health insurance, Medicaid coverage, the Affordable Care Act, and more.

1. Introduction Seema Mohapatra and Lindsay F. Wiley
2. Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospitals, 105 N.E. 92, 93 (N.Y. 1914) Danielle Pelfrey Duryea and Kelly Dineen
3. Reynolds v. McNichols, 488 F.2d 1378 (10th Cir. 1973) Aziza Ahmed and Wendy Parmet
4. Conservatorship of Valerie N., 707 P.2d 760 (Cal. 1985) Cynthia Soohoo, Sofia Yakren and Doriane Lambelet Coleman
5. Bouvia v. Superior Court, 225 Cal. Rptr. 297 (Cal Ct. App. 1986) Joan H. Krause and Barry Furrow
6. Moore v. Regents of University of California, 793 P.2d 479 (Cal. 1990) Jessica Roberts and Lisa C. Ikemoto
7. Linton v. Commissioner of Health and Environment, 65 F.3d 508 (6th Cir. 1995) Ruqaiijah Yearby and Gwendolyn Roberts Majette
8. Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) Doron Dorfman and Becka Rich
9. Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co., 179 F.3d 557 (7th Cir. 1999) Christina S. Ho and Valarie Blake
10. Smith v. Rasmussen, 249 F.3d 755 (8th Cir. 2001) Heather Walter McCabe and Craig Konnoth
11. Burton v. State, 49 So.3d 263 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010) Greer Donley and Nadia Sawicki
12. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012) Mary Ann Chirba, Alice A. Noble and Elizabeth Weeks
13. Means v. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 836 F.3d 643 (6th Cir. 2016) Maya Manian and Leslie C. Griffin
14. Does v. Gillespie, 867 F. 3d 1034 (8th Cir. 2017) Elizabeth Kukura, Jennifer Oliva and Melissa Alexander
15. National Institute of Family & Life Advocates v. Becerra, 138 S.Ct. 2361 (2018) Brietta R. Clark and Sonia Suter.

Subject Areas: Medical & healthcare law [LNTM], Gender & the law [LAQG], Politics & government [JP]