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![]() 199847 Integrating Public Health and Social Justice Teaching in LawMonday, November 9, 2009: 12:30 PM
Public Health in Bioethics and Legal Education: The basic fodder of law school courses (case law, statutes, and regulations) often fails to place legal concepts in a social context. Including Public Health Law in the law school curriculum is one way to seamlessly integrate social justice into the pedagogy. With public health's focus on populations, concerns of social justice are necessarily addressed. Public Health Law advocate, Wendy Parmet, asserts that “Lawyers should be able to think critically about populations and what it means to focus on them, as opposed to individuals.” Incorporating public health into the law school curriculum enables us to teach the next generation of lawyers not just a new way of thinking, but a new way of practicing which involves a commitment to balancing individual rights and liberties with promotion of the common good, enabling students as practitioners to better serve the communities in which they practice.
Learning Objectives: Keywords: Ethics, Education
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have a JD and MPH and have presented on this topic before. I also teach public health ethics to law students. I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
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