LAW AND MEDICINE SYLLABUS

http://www.d.umn.edu/~ffriedma/lawmedsyl.htm

CURRICULUM:

Class 1: Introduction to the American Legal System and discussion of areas of common interest of Law and Medicine

Class 2: Forensic Medicine and the Doctor in the Courtroom

Class 3: Liability- Physicians, Hospitals and Clinics, Drugs and other Products

Class 4: Innovations in Medicine- changing definitions of Life and Death, Experimentation and Public Health Issues

Class 5: Composition, Performance and Regulation of the Medical Profession, Doctors and Marital Dissolution

REQUIRED READINGS: (number indicates which class the materials will be discussed)

Legal. Principles and Legal-Medical Encounters

2. Commonwealth v Radford 428Pa.279, 236 A.2d 802

3. Minnesota Statute 145.682

3. Swanson v Chatterton 160 N.W. 2d 662(1968)

3. Silver v Redleaf 194 N.W. 2d271 (1972)

3. Jensen v Linner 108 N.W. 2d 705 (1961)

3. Fiorentino v. Wenger 227 N.E.S.2d 373(1967) (Basis of Hospital Liability)

3. Gottsdanker v. Cutter Lab 182 Ca. App. 2d 602 1960 (Warranties)

3. MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Trying Times for health care St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 5, 2003

3. RESPONSES TO THE LIABILITY CRISIS HEALTH LAW Second Edition, Furrow et. (2000)

4. Griswold v. Connecticut 381 U.S. 479 (1965) (Birth Control and Rights of the Fetus)

4. Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (Abortion)

4. Skinner v. Oklahoma 316 U.S. 535 (1942) (Sterilization)

5. Grutter v Bollinger 539 U.S. 306 (2003) (Affirmative Action in Admission to Medical School)

5. Board of Curators v. Horowitz 435 U.S. 78 (1978) (Medical School Dismissal)

5. DeLa Rosa v. DeLa Rosa 309 N.W. 2d 755 (1981) (Physician Divorce)

ADDITIONAL READINGS: