Most Recent Articles from American Journal of Law & Medicine  

• Environment and health: vital intersection or contested territory?

  I. INTRODUCTION The effects of environmental exposure, broadly defined as any exposure from outside the body, on human health are unquestionably...

  6/22/04 by Richard W. Clapp · More from publication

• Equal treatment for regulatory science: extending the controls governing the quality of public research to private research.

  I. INTRODUCTION The imperative that agencies use "sound science" in developing their regulations has become a major preoccupation of the political...

  6/22/04 by Wendy Wagner · More from publication

• Suppression of environmental science.

  I. INTRODUCTION There is a long history of attacks on scientists. During the Inquisition, the Roman Catholic Church charged Galileo with heresy...

  6/22/04 by Robert R. Kuehn · More from publication

• The mercury's falling: the Massachusetts approach to reducing mercury in the environment.

  I. INTRODUCTION Mercury is a persistent, bioaccumulative toxin that adversely affects human beings and wildlife. (1) Mercury, like many such...

  6/22/04 by Pamela D. Harvey · More from publication

• Parks as gyms? Recreational paradigms and public health in the national parks.

  I. INTRODUCTION When scholars and policymakers think about the relationship between public health and environmental law and policy, they likely...

  6/22/04 by Jay D. Wexler · More from publication

• Consuming (f)ears of corn: public health and biopharming.

  I'm convinced that physical containment is overrated and, while reassuring to the psyche, is hardly the line of defense one would like to put the...

  6/22/04 by Rebecca M. Bratspies · More from publication

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American Journal of Law & Medicine: Issues from 2004

• June 2004
• March 2004