What is your physician not telling you?

Jason Smith, Chair, Associate Professor Department of Health Sciences

Across the United States some states are regulating what physicians may say or not say to their patients on topics as varied as sexual orientation change therapy, abortion and firearm ownership. This regulation of speech raises serious First Amendment implications as well as implications for the health of both individuals and communities. This talk will focus on the evolving professional speech doctrine and its implications for health as well the role of health as norm in U.S. Constitutional law.

Talk given on November 18, 2016, by Assistant Professor Jason Smith in the Biella Room of the Library on the Hayward campus of 麻豆蜜桃AV

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