Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others

Alternatives to manufacturer liability for injuries caused by the Sabin-type oral polio vaccines.

To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol’s Harms to Others

OBJECTIVE To examine how sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption are related to a four-way typology of causing harm to others and/or being harmed by others' and one's own drinking. DATA AND METHODS Data from the 2011 Danish national survey (n = 2,569) were analyzed with multi nomial logistic regression. RESULTS Younger age and heavy drinking were significant correlates of both caus...

Liability for the actions of others.

Harms to "Others" and the Selection Against Disability View.

In recent years, the question of whether prospective parents might have a moral obligation to select against disability in their offspring has piqued the attention of many prominent philosophers and bioethicists, and a large literature has emerged surrounding this question. Rather than looking to the most common arguments given in support of a positive response to the abovementioned question, s...

Harms caused by China's 1906-17 opium suppression intervention.

Between 1906 and 1917 China (under the Imperial and then Republican regimes) enacted a highly effective intervention to suppress the production of opium. Evidence from British Foreign Office records suggest that the intervention was centred, in many areas, upon a highly repressive incarnation of law enforcement in which rural populations had their property destroyed, their land confiscated and/...