Examines when and why discrimination based on health status - or 'healthism' - should be allowed, and when it should not.
Elizabeth Weeks is Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of Georgia School of Law. In addition to numerous law review articles and book chapters, she is co-author of The Law of American Health Care (2016). She is past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine and Bioethics, and has received numerous awards and honors, including the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics Health Law Scholars Award, University of Kansas Docking Faculty Scholar Award and the University of Kansas School of Law Immel Teaching Award.