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Employers and the Future of Public Health

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For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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

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The COVID-19 pandemic challenged this separation. For far too long, for example, maladies such as chronic fatigue, brain fog, and pain were seen with skepticism as ‘exaggerated,’ ‘made up,’ or ‘unexplained illnesses’ yet they gained legitimacy once long COVID inescapably made them a public concern.

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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. Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic. We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. What Macrodosing Can Learn from Microdosing. Thanks for reading!

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