Half Truths

Of hospital advertising truths, half truths, and the academic medical center.

Half-Truths, Whole Lies, & the Duty of Disclosure in Insurance Law

A half-truth need not be a whole lie for insurance purposes; insurance law must distinguish between concealment and misrepresentation for equity and efficiency reasons. Reasonable disclosure should be the goal of underwriting, though what is “reasonable” should depend upon the insured’s degree of sophistication. This Comment argues that, whereas it may be equitable and efficient to relax the di...

A Look at the Myths and Half-truths about Profit and Non-profit Hospital Performance

Home truths from abroad.

I recently paid a visit to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. My aim was to exchange ideas about postgraduate training with the medical teachers there. Brown is one of America’s leading universities, and I saw a great deal that challenged my preconceptions about medicine in the USA, and also made me question some of our working practices in the UK. Most of my time was spent observing...

'Home Truths' on Intersectionality

In the wake of intersectionality's trans-disciplinary institutionalization, this Article considers how the meaning and practice of intersectionality has changed in different historical moments. This Article studies three periods in black feminism's long history of doing intersectional work: an early period (1968-87) marked by a broad conception of intersectionality, the watershed years (1988-90...