Patients and Families Living with HIV/AIDS

POVERTY, HEALTH AND LAW: READINGS AND CASES FOR MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP, Chapter 13, pp. 437-480, Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, Ellen Lawton, Kathleen Conroy, Megan Sandel, Barry S. Zuckerman, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2011, ISBN: 1594607796

U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-45

Posted: 31 Jul 2012

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Alison Brock

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Deborah J. Weimer

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Ann Fisher

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Jayson Cooley

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Josiah D. Rich

Brown University - School of Medicine

Date Written: 2011

Abstract

This book is the first of its kind to comprehensively describe the role of law and lawyers in helping to address and mitigate social disparities in health care in a variety of settings. It is designed as both a teaching tool and a resource for those interested in medical-legal partnership. Professor Deborah Weimer co-authored Chapter 13, Patients and Families Living with HIV. This Chapter describes the relationship between HIV, social determinants of health such as poverty, race and sexual orientation, and the law. It describes how an effective medical legal partnership has and can address the many barriers to care faced by people living with HIV. It describes legal protections that have been enacted to protect individuals and families impacted by HIV, that at the same time can play a role in encouraging people to be tested for HIV. It describes the many ways in which lawyers and medical providers can work together for the benefit of the patient in addressing discrimination issues on the job, appealing denials of public benefits, or planning for end of life care and the care of children. It includes case examples and discussion questions for use in a classroom setting

Keywords: poverty, race, sexual orientation, medical-legal partnership, families, health care

Suggested Citation

Brock, Alison and Weimer, Deborah J. and Fisher, Ann and Cooley, Jayson and Rich, Josiah D., Patients and Families Living with HIV/AIDS (2011). POVERTY, HEALTH AND LAW: READINGS AND CASES FOR MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP, Chapter 13, pp. 437-480, Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, Ellen Lawton, Kathleen Conroy, Megan Sandel, Barry S. Zuckerman, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2011, ISBN: 1594607796, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-45, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2120515

Alison Brock

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Deborah J. Weimer (Contact Author)

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law ( email )

500 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1786
United States

Ann Fisher

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Jayson Cooley

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Josiah D. Rich

Brown University - School of Medicine ( email )

Box G-MH
Providence, RI 02912
United States

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