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Tackling the Global NCD Crisis: Innovations in Law and Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Bryan Thomas  and
Lawrence O. Gostin
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To someone holding a hammer, the cliché goes, everything looks like a nail. A similar myopia often afflicts legal minds as they approach deep-seated problems in global health, as every crisis is approached by first asking how it might be litigated away. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the limits of litigation as a tool for advancing equitable access to health — indeed of its potential, under some circumstances, to have a positively regressive impact. This very timely symposium offers us a chance to reflect more deeply on the matter.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , Spring 2013 , pp. 16 - 27
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

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