The legal and health care professions face human problems and possibilities that transcend traditional academic disciplines in times of technological, legal, and political change. This program will address the connections of law and medicine with the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts. The panelists will explore a range of issues in medicine and healthcare that benefit from lawyerly and humanistic engagement, including the role of legislative language; the power of literature and film; the ways in which the medical humanities can inform and contextualize opioid law and policy development; the current controversies in informed consent to treatment; the role of medical dramas in illustrating both complete and incomplete consent processes; the relationship between health policy and therapeutic jurisprudence in the context of end-of-life issues; the ethical, legal, and social issues raised by genealogy testing; and the role of science fiction in the law classroom.
The Section held a virtual business meeting prior to the Annual Meeting.