Issues in Law & Medicine articles from June 2001

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from June 2001

Psychiatric Darwinism = survival of the fittest + extinction of the unfit.(American Health Security Act of 1993)
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT: This article is a critical analysis of the American Health Security Act of 1993. Although AHSA was soundly defeated when first proposed, parts of it have been enacted into law in 1996, with the prospect of further piece-meal...

An outsider's view of Dutch euthanasia policy and practice.
June 22, 2001... ABSTRACT: This article provides a critical analysis of Dutch euthanasia policy and practice. The research benefited from twenty-eight interviews conducted in the Netherlands during the summer of 1999 with some of the leading figures who dictate...

Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, ed. Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21st Century. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 2000; . This volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences contains essays that were presented at an...

When Killing Is Wrong: Physician Assisted Suicide and the Courts.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Dyck, Arthur J. When Killing Is Wrong: Physician Assisted Suicide and the Courts. CLeveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 2001; 216-736-3755; . Arthur J. Dyck, professor of population ethics in the School of Public Health and member of the...

Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Peterson, James C. Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001; 800-253-7521; The rapidly expanding technology of human genetic intervention is offering new choices...

Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint.
June 22, 2001... Gostin, Lawrence O. Public Health Law. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000; . This book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the...

Bioethics in Social Context.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Hoffmaster, Barry. Bioethics in Social Context. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001; . Descriptive bioethics is the "factual investigation of moral behavior and beliefs." Social scientists--anthropologists, sociologists, and...