At Law
Aids, Judges, and the Right to Medical Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20334284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George J Annas (0000-0001-5836-7831, Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 20 |
| Publication date | 1988-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3563224 |
| PMID | 3220748 |
| OpenAlex | W1786018983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The author critiques the ruling in Dallas Gay Alliance v. Parkland Memorial Hospital (14th Dist. Dallas Co., 20 May 1988), that ordered the immediate dispensing of AZT and experimental aerosolized pentamidine to all indigent AIDS patients who qualified for these drugs, as well as the abolition of all bed limitations for indigent patients with AIDS. In Annas's opinion, the judge's actions were guided by politics rather than by law, which recognizes no constitutional right to medical care and protects even the terminally ill from the potentially devastating effects of experimental drugs. Annas argues that the solution to the lack of universal access in our health care system should come from Congress and the individual state legislatures, bodies that are better suited to gather information and to make political and policy decisions than are judges
Alliance · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 1989 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |