title: Can safety belt laws be justified?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Trauma, Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, Allentown, PA.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rhodes
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D006801:Humans; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*