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Rethinking Mental Health Reform: A case for reviving community-based care

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Charting an ethical path forward Ethical remedies for such coercive excess can be found in a return to the Olmstead decision’s “integration mandate” based in the ADA. There is good evidence that the mandate works. Timely psychiatric care should not require sacrificing freedom, dignity or community participation.

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Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace

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It also violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Under the ADA , employers may subject employees to testing only if it is job-related and consistent with business necessity. Second, it magnifies the ADA and Title VII concerns. The advent of predictive Alzheimer’s disease testing requires two changes to the ADA.

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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

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Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

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Sometimes it feels like we have real choices — about which devices to use, which therapists to quit seeing, for instance.

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Bill of Health’s Top 10 Posts of 2022

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Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply. We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. Browse the list below. Microdosing at Work: Business and Legal Implications. What Macrodosing Can Learn from Microdosing. Thanks for reading!

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Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens

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By Xochitl L. The coronavirus pandemic changed the world in countless ways, and for a moment it challenged the pre-pandemic separation of — in Hannah Arendt’s terms — the Private and the Public. To Arendt , the Public is defined as the sole realm where a human can live in full, as a person integral and part of a community as an equal.

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NHS warned on rollout of AI-powered genomic health prediction

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AI-powered genomic health prediction could pose significant risks concerning privacy and discrimination, according to a new report.

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