Issues in Law & Medicine articles

Recent articles from Issues in Law & Medicine

Euthanasia policy and practice in Belgium: critical observations and suggestions for improvement.
March 22, 2009... This article investigates and discusses the practice of euthanasia in Belgium. Its methodology is based on critical review of the literature supplemented by interviews I conducted in Belgium with leading scholars and practitioners in February 2003 and February 2005. The interviews were...

Other People's Lives: Reflections on Medicine, Ethics, and Euthanasia.(Excerpt)
March 22, 2009... Part One: In Defense of Medicine Chapter VI. Speaking the Truth "Falsehood is in itself bad and reprehensible," states Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics, "while the truth is a fine and praiseworthy thing." (55) He does not say why. There seem to be important reasons to respect and...

Can Glucksberg survive Lawrence? Another look at the end of life and personal automony.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT: In Washington v. Glucksberg, the Court declined to find a right to physician-assisted suicide ("PAS") in the Constitution. Not a single Justice dissented. One would expect such a ruling to be quite secure. But Lawrence v. Texas, holding that a state cannot make consensual homosexual...

Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon: a medical perspective.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT: This article examines the Oregon Death with Dignity Act from a medical perspective. Drawing on case studies and information provided by doctors, families, and other care givers, it finds that seemingly reasonable safeguards for the care and protection of terminally ill patients...

Other People's Lives: Reflections on Medicine, Ethics, and Euthanasia.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Part One: In Defense of Medicine Chapter III. The Attack on Medicine The doctor, looking grave and solemn, began his examination. He took the patient's pulse rate and body temperature, and proceeded to the percussion and auscultation. With a certainty that left no ...