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Employers and the Future of Public Health

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By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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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. Safety First: Potential Heart Health Risks of Microdosing. We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. Browse the list below. What Macrodosing Can Learn from Microdosing.

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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.

Bioethics 351
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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.

Doctors 289
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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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Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens

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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. By Xochitl L.

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