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Bioethics Access to published hterature on the ethical, legal, and public policy issues surrounding healthcare and biomedical research. This information is provided in conjunction with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics located at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. httpvywww.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases bioethics.html... 

Our review of some regulatory decisions, based on risk information, has been a relatively superficial one, and has avoided many complicated legal and policy issues, to say nothing of the political warfare that may accompany some decisions. The review, though selective in its coverage, does reveal that regulators draw no single... 

Macoun, Robert, and Peter Reuter. Cross-National Drug Policy. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 582, July 2002. Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE Publications, 2002. This volume is a collection of papers on drug policy issues in many nations. Topics discussed include drug law enforcement, harm minimization, and legalization, as well as the economic, social, and political aspects of black markets in illegal drugs in Colombia, Iran, and Russia. 

This chapter will provide the reader with an overview of patenting in the pharmaceutical biotechnology industry and summarize some of the key legal and ethical issues related to the patenting of biomedical products and processes. It will examine the legal aspects of patenting before considering the ethical and policy issues. This essay will focus primarily on the U S patent laws, which are very similar to the European patent laws. The essay will note some differences between the US and European laws, and it will mention some relevant international intellectual property treaties. 

Thorough discussion of legal, ethical, and policy issues related to DNA patenting. D. Resnik, Owning the Genome A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting, S.U.N.Y. Press, Albany, New York, 2004. 

As can be seen, legalization, decriminalization, and harm reduction are not synonymous. The statements in the NDCS and the letter by Congressman Souder attempt to equate these concepts. By doing so, there is an attempt to dissuade people from engaging in a reasonable discussion about the variety of policy issues and strategies incotporated in the terms l ahzation, decriminalization, and harm reduction. You may have noticed that the 1999 NDCS attempts to associate harm reduction with totally unrelated, emotional issues such as crack babies. ... 

Narration or voice-over, if done well, can be one of the best and most efficient ways to move your story along, not because it tells the story but because it draws the audience into and through it. Narration provides information that s not otherwise available but is essential if audiences are to fully experience your film. When documentary makers dive into fairly complicated historical policy or legal and legislative issues," notes filmmaker Jon Else, "narration is your friend. It may mean that you have only two or three lines of narration in a film, but something that might take 10 minutes of tortured interview or tortured verite footage can be often disposed of better in 15 seconds of a well-written line of narration."... 

Humphrey JP (1985) Political and related rights. In Meron T (ed) Human rights in international law legal and policy issues. Clarendon, Oxford, pp 171-293 Kadens A, Young EA (2013) How customary is customary international law William Mary Law Rev 54 885-920... 

To be effective, accident investigation should have a plan to be executed by management and other trained individuals. These plans should be designed to satisfy corporate policies and legal issues. The plan should always produce an investigation to determine the cause of the accident and what measure must be taken to prevent it from happening again. 

The U.S. government s Office of National Drug Control Policy. Legal issues and fact sheets. 

The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 required careful analysis of the consequences of any federally funded project. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 established guidelines for handling, transport, and hauling of hazardous materials, such as required in cleanup of soil contaminants. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 established, for the hrst time, strict mles on legal liability for soil contamination. CERCLA stimulated identihcation and cleanup of thousands of contaminated land sites, and consequently raised awareness of property buyers and sellers to make soil contamination a focal issue of land use and management practices (US-EPA 2007c). 

April 29 Minnesota changes the wording in its policy on concealed firearms carry permits to shall issue, meaning that citizens must be given such permits unless they don t legally qualify. More than 30 states now have shall issue laws. 

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. Firearm Violence An Annotated Bibliography. Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins Center, 1996. Covers resources dealing with firearms ownership and use, legal and legislative issues, the gun industry, gun control supporters and opponents, and strategies for reducing gun violence. 

Fact Sheet Firearm Injury and Death in the United States. Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. Available online. URL http //www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy/US factsheet 2004.pdf. Updated in January 2004. Gives statistics and trends relating to gun violence in the United States. Overall gun-related deaths have declined by 25 percent between 1993 and 2001. Other topics summarized include effects on youth, public health effects and cost of gun ownership, summary of the effects of different types of gun laws, legal issues, regulation and litigation, and public opinion. 

Social, ethical, and legal issues in drug development, marketing, and pricing policies setting priorities pharmaceuticals as private organizations and the duty to make money/ maximize profits... 

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