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Health Law: Current Issues/Choose a Topic

This is for Health Law Master's students, JD students in Health Law seminar classes, and anyone else interested in Health Law.

Where to find topics/articles

News and Blogs

While typically less comprehensive and vetted than law review and other journal articles, these are a great way to keep on the cutting edge of your topic.

Search Terms to Use to Find a Topic

   From the Pace Law Library, this is a list of suggested topics and subjects to use as search terms and keywords, and to help you identify a topic for your research.  Below is a list of sample topics.

·         Bioethics

·         Developmentally Disabled

·         Discrimination in Medical Care

·         Donation Of Organs Tissues Etc - Law And Legislation

·         Emergency Medical Services

·         Forensic Psychiatry

·         Health - Law and Legislation

·         Health Decision Making

·         Health Facilities - Law and Legislation

·         Health Insurance

·         Health Maintenance Organizations

·         Health Services Administration

·         Human Experimentation in Medicine

·         Informed Consent - Medical Law

·         Insanity (Law)

·         Insurance, Mental Health

·         Medical Care - Law and Legislation

·         Medical Laws and Legislation

·         Medical Personnel Malpractice

·         Medical Records - Law and Legislation

·         Medicare - Law and Legislation

·         Mental Illness

·         Mental Health - Laws and Legislation

·         Mental Health Facilities - Law and Legislation

·         Mental Health Personnel

·         Mentally Handicapped Children

·         Mentally Ill - Commitment and Detention

·         Mentally Ill Offenders

·         Physicians Malpractice

·         Psychiatric Hospitals - Admission and Discharge

·         Psychiatrists - Malpractice

·         Public Health Law

·         Right to Die - Law and Legislation

Research Guides for Common Research Areas