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Lawyers, Guns, and Money: A Plenary Presentation from the Conference “Using Law, Policy and Research to Improve the Public's Health”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

James S. Marks ,
Michelle A. Larkin  and
Angela K. McGowan
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On behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), I want to thank the Public Health Law Association and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics for your leadership and the work that both you and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have done to grow this field. RWJF is pleased to co-sponsor this conference.

The music that opened this talk is a clip from Warren Zevon, who encouraged us musically to “send lawyers, guns and money.” Zevon was a singer/songwriter and social critic whose songs often took a jaundiced, somewhat cynical point of view. Even so, I know that I am probably stretching his meaning when I think of this song. I see “lawyers, guns and money” as his take on the major drivers of how change happens in a society.

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JLME Supplement
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 39 , Issue S1 , Spring 2011 , pp. 9 - 14
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2011

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