Low point in medical jurisprudence, Paul Lombardo
Interviewee: Paul Lombardo. Low point in medical jurisprudence.
The Buck case was the first and only time that the United States Supreme Court has concluded that states may perform operations on people who neither want them nor need them. It is the low point in medical jurisprudence in America, the only time that coercive medicine was approved as a measure of the state, based on false science.
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