Operationalizing Power in Health Law: The Hospital Abolition Hypothesis
Journal: The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics
Year: 2024

This symposium Article describes how prison abolitionist arguments also support the hypothesis that a defining goal of health law should be the abolition of hospitals. Like prison abolitionism, the hospital abolition hypothesis can provide a constructive way to shift the focus of legal analysis from substantive dimensions (in health law - cost, quality, access, and equity) to the dimension of power.