NCJ Number
128745
Date Published
1989
Length
1582 pages
Annotation
This publication is designed to help practitioners, businesspersons, administrators, and health care professionals cope with legal developments relevant to Florida's emerging AIDS law; it compiles the most important Florida documents on the subject.
Abstract
The volumes suggest trends in the law and identify legal issues overlooked by administrators, judges, and legislators. Federal law and legal issues are examined where appropriate. An overview of Florida's AIDS law concludes that despite Florida's high death toll from AIDS, the law governing the disease in the State is still so unclear that practitioners often must operate on little more than an educated hunch. The entire body of AIDS-specific Florida law currently consists of a few general policy statements, a landmark administrative law decision, a handful of reported court cases, and a large new body of statutory law enacted in the 1988 and 1989 legislative sessions. Federal law is only slightly more substantial. The first volume provides an overview of the HIV epidemic; discusses law pertinent to discrimination against AIDS patients in employment, housing, and insurance; and considers AIDS in the correctional system and the public schools. Legal issues discussed in volume 2 address family law, the medical use of human tissue and blood, health care industry practices, AIDS education and awareness, legal mandates concerning the control of communicable diseases, and the Omnibus AIDS Act of 1988. Volume 3 reviews the Americans with Disabilities Act and provides a glossary of technical terms, selected law review articles, testing forms and protocols, resources, select bibliographies, a subject index, and a table of cases. Appended supplementary materials