Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, 3305 College Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2019 Mar-Apr;63:56-62. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2018.06.008. Epub 2018 Jul 3.
More than 25 years ago, Professors David Wexler and Bruce Winick envisioned broad application of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ), an interdisciplinary theory of law suggesting that legislatures, regulators, and judges consider the extent to which their decisions impact the psychological well-being of those upon whom the law acts. TJ most obviously plays a significant role in mental health and criminal law, where it originated, but Wexler and Winick long ago opined that TJ could be useful in a wide variety of other disciplines as well. Indeed, TJ has expanded exponentially in application over the years. Yet, although Wexler and Winick originally suggested that health law was an "obvious" field in which it could expand, application of TJ in that discipline has been less robust than one might have expected. This article will examine the extent to which TJ has been applied in health law other than mental health law, categorize the areas of health law in which it has been applied, and suggest future paths for expansive application in this most obvious of areas.
25 年多以前，大卫·韦克斯勒教授和布鲁斯·温尼克教授设想了治疗法学（therapeutic jurisprudence，TJ）的广泛应用，这是一种跨学科的法律理论，它建议立法机关、监管机构和法官考虑他们的决策在多大程度上影响法律所作用的那些人的心理健康。TJ 最初起源于心理健康法和刑法领域，在这些领域中它发挥着重要作用，但韦克斯勒和温尼克教授很早就认为，TJ 在其他许多学科中也可能有用。事实上，多年来，TJ 在应用方面呈指数级扩展。然而，尽管韦克斯勒和温尼克教授最初认为健康法是一个“明显”可以扩展的领域，但 TJ 在该学科的应用却不如人们预期的那样广泛。本文将考察 TJ 在心理健康法以外的健康法领域的应用程度，对其应用的健康法领域进行分类，并为在这一最明显的领域进行广泛应用提出未来的途径。
