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Article
Forthcoming
Public Health Limits of Medical Freedom
James G. Hodge Jr. and Summer Ghaith et al.
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
 
Open Access

Abstract:

Through emerging interpretations of individual "medical freedoms," a panoply of state legislative bills seeks to undermine long-standing public health and health care requirements including recommendations to test, screen, treat, and vaccinate persons. To the extent these bills could upend decades of laws and policies protecting individual and communal health, especially among vulnerable individuals, they threaten the health-and freedoms-of all persons.
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