Abstract
A direct correlation exists among humans, their animals, and human health and wellness. This article will focus concisely on law students with disabilities and lawyers with disabilities and how they can be empowered to be trailblazers while remaining healthy and well. Salutogenic Model should be optimized by lawyers with disabilities working at the intersection of animal law, disability law, and public health law. Service animals have positive and salubrious impacts upon their handlers in several ways, including psychosocial health and wellbeing. The Grand Architect (or in my Cherokee tradition, "great spirit") continuously partners me with complicated but magnificent dog partners who shape my emotional, physical, and spiritual health and wellness. (This is to mention but three of the seven dimensions of health and wellness.) As one article has indicated, public health advocacy is essential for promoting disability rights and shaping policies that address the unique needs of people with disabilities." Disability law and public health law, policy, and research, should be harmonized thereby designing and implementing interventions to empower trailblazers with disabilities to be healthy and well, in spite of social ignorance or insurmountable social prejudice. Arguably, service animals is a powerful public health intervention.
Recommended Citation
Gary C. Norman,
An Essay on Trailblazing With Service Animals Langer, Pilot, Bowie, and Izzie: Preserving Non-partisan Public Health and the Law,
39 J.L. & Health
1
(2025)
available at https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/jlh/vol39/iss1/5
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