Can safety belt laws be justified?
This article combines the researched sciences of logic, philosophy, and medicine to develop a perspective on safety belt laws. The positions of advocacy and opposition are examined primarily by a nonphysician in a reasonably unbiased manner. The result is an enhanced awareness of principles not commonly employed by physicians which may be useful to the medical profession in dealing with this controversy.
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Division of Trauma, Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, Allentown, PA.
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D002961:Civil Rights; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D006801:Humans; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*