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Allan M. Brandt is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School where he directs the Program in the History of Medicine and the Division of Medical Ethics. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University where he is currently chair. His work focuses on social and ethical aspects of health, disease, and medical practices in the 20th century U.S. He is currently completing a book on the social and cultural history of smoking in the U.S. In 2002, he was deposed as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in U.S. v. Philip Morris, which will be tried in 2004.
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The Litigation Revolution: Tobacco Liability and the Rise of New Public Health
Professor Allan M. Brandt, PhD
Harvard University
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
11:30am - 1:00pm
Mondale Hall, Room 25
University of Minnesota Law School
The tobacco industry can no longer claim legal invincibility. Prof. Brandt will argue that this is the result of critical changes in the science of tobacco's harms, generating a fundamental transformation in the meaning of smoking. Prof. Brandt will consider the ethical issues at stake in adjudicating responsibility for the harms incurred by smoking. Finally, he will assess the future of liability as a strategy for reducing harms to the public's health.
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1.5 CLE credits have been approved.
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