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Legal Perspectives in Responding to Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Nathan Hershey
Nathan Hershey
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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I plan to cover several subjects. First I will speak briefly about a definition of law, although I am fairly certain this kind audience understands a good deal about law. I will then indicate my basic thesis. After that I will review some disaster legislation of two states in the United States that addresses legal considerations relevant to events that occur during major disaster situations. Following that I will make some proposals about how some of the concern about the legal issues can be alleviated, particularly on a worldwide basis. Finally, I hope to provide you with a frame of reference for further consideration of legal matters.

Type
Papers from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services: Focus on Disasters, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 1986
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 96 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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