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PubMed1987

Engstrom v. Courteau, 1986.

The plaintiffs were a husband, who had undergone a vasectomy in order not to pass on a hereditary disease, and his wife. After the wife gave birth to a child born with hereditary defects, they brought a wrongful birth suit on their behalf and a wrongful life suit on the behalf of their child. The Court allowed them to recover on their behalf, but not on their child's behalf. It held that it is impossible to consider life, even if restricted by handicaps, to constitute damage.

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PubMed1999

Genetic enhancement in the twenty-first century: three problems in legal imagining.

By what method should we resolve the ethical and public policy issues surrounding genetic enhancement: a utilitarian calculus, appeal to Scripture, application of neo-Kantian principles? In this Article, the author claims that, despite the diversity of our basic methodological commitments, we can advance our shared understanding of the issues surrounding genetic enhancement and come to agree upon certain central features as essential to any adequate method for resolving those issues. The author attempts to make modest headway on both fronts by engaging in "legal imagining." Legal imagining consists of examining hypothetical problems from the lawyer's perspective, the perspective of a caring, professional friend. This Article examines and discusses three problems in legal imagining.

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PubMed2005

Picking up the tab. Healthcare chains put the past behind them, resolving past unpleasantries in order to make a clean start in the new year.

It's something of a holiday tradition: legal settlements at major investor-owned healthcare companies. But will Tenet's and HealthSouth's multimillion-dollar mea culpas over allegations of providing unnecessary care have the same healing effect that HCA's pair of year-end settlements yielded? Tenet's E. Peter Urbanowicz, left, said his company's moves show "the real progress we are making to put our legal challenges ... behind us".

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