LARRY I. PALMER is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, where he has taught courses on law and medicine for many years. He is the author of Law, Medicine, and Social Justice (1989) and numerous journal articles dealing with law, medicine, and policy. He is executive producer and author of the study guide for the award-winning educational video, Susceptible to Kindness: Miss Evers' Boys and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1994).