The Tarasoff case remains a pivotal marker in bioethics at the bicentennial as we now reach the country’s 250th birthday.

In August 1969, Prosenjit Poddar, a male student at the University of California-Berkeley, told a psychologist that he intended to kill Tanya Tarasoff; two months later, he did. Although Poddar did ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. tort law provides a framework for thinking about this type of responsibility. In 1969 a University of California psychiatric ...