Issues in Law & Medicine articles from June 2002

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from June 2002

The importance of being dead: non-heart-beating organ donation.
June 22, 2002... ABSTRACT: There is no definitive answer to the question of how long one must wait, after a person's heart stops beating, before concluding that the person meets the heart-lung criteria for death. This question has assumed new importance with...

Is organ procurement causing the death of patients?
June 22, 2002... ABSTRACT: This article offers a philosophical foundation for the Uniform Determination of Death Act as it first examines death per se, and then examines brain death and the non-heart beating donor criteria for determining death. The author...

In the Michigan Court of Appeals: in the Matter AMB, a Minor *.
June 22, 2002... HOLDING: In the accelerating rush to judgment that occurred here, a series of legal errors and missteps following a preliminary hearing compounded what was already an excruciatingly difficult and complex situation. The record strongly suggests...

In the Michigan Court of Appeals: People vs. Jack Kevorkian *.
June 22, 2002... HELD: There is no right to euthanasia within the constitutional right of privacy. Recognition of such a right to euthanasia would impermissibly expand the right of privacy and thus place the issue outside the arenas of public debate and...

European Court of Human Rights: case of Pretty v. the United Kingdom *.
June 22, 2002... The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Mr M. Pellonpaa, President, Sir Nicolas Bratza, Mrs E. Palm, Mr J. Makarczyk, Mr M. Fischbach, Mr J. Casadevall, Mr S. Pavlovschi, judges, and Mr M. O'Boyle,...

Ja Emerson Vermaat, `Euthanasia' in the Third Reich: lessons for today?
June 22, 2002... 18 EThics & MED. 21 (2002). Sixty years ago the Nazis occasionally used similar arguments as today's humane and sincere advocates of euthanasia. Karl Brandt, the head of Hitler's euthanasia program, claimed at his trial after the war: "The...

I. H. Kerridge et al., Death, Dying and Donation: Organ Transplantation and the Diagnosis of Death.
June 22, 2002... 28 J. MED. ETHICS 89 (2002). Refusal of organ donation is common, and becoming more frequent. In Australia refusal by families occurred in 56% of cases in 1995 in New South Wales, and had risen to 82% in 1999, becoming the most important...

Margda Waern et al., Mental Disorder in Elderly Suicides: a Case-Control Study.
June 22, 2002... 159 AM. J. PSYCHIATRY 450 (2002). The authors' goal was to study the importance of different psychiatric disorders in relation to suicide in individuals sixty-five years old or older. The psychological autopsy approach was used to study...

Albert S. Moraczewski, May One Benefit from the Evil Deeds of Others?
June 22, 2002... 2 NAT'L CATH. BIOETHICS Q. 43 (2002). On August 9, 2001, President Bush permitted federal funding for the use of stem cell lines that were produced from human embryos destroyed before 9 p.m., E.D.T., August 9th, 2001. In the eyes of the...

Michael R. Panicola, Three Views on the Preimplantation Embryo.
June 22, 2002... 2 NAT'L CATH. BIOETHICS Q. 69 (2002). The question of the moral status of the preimplantation embryo is one of the most controversial ethical and policy issues of the modern day. Previously held views on the value of human life in its...

W. Malcolm Byrnes, Human Genetic Technology, Eugenics, and Social Justice.
June 22, 2002... 1 NAT'L CATH. BIOETHICS Q. 555 (2001). What the history of modern eugenics makes perfectly clear is that eugenic thinking has had and continues to have a significant impact on society: on the attitudes we have and the decisions we make. In...

Reproductive Technology: Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship.
June 22, 2002... Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 2001; . The author, associate professor of Christian social ethics and director of the Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Illinois, gives an overview of the various...

Reflexions on Cloning.
June 22, 2002... Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997 (Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German); Tel. 06-698.85003; Fax 06-698.84716. The Pontifical Academy for Life is the department of the Vatican that has as its specific mandate the...

Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells.
June 22, 2002... Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2000 (Italian and English); Tel. 06-698.85003; Fax 06-698.84716. This booklet, also prepared by the Pontifical Academy for Life, seeks to contribute to the debate on the production and use of embryonic...

The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care.
June 22, 2002... Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001; . The last decade witnessed a number of high-profile medical malpractice cases that have focused the public's attention on the difficult and private decisions families and...

The Culture of Life: Foundations and Dimensions: Proceedings of the Seventh Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
June 22, 2002... Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2002 (English and Italian); Tel. 06-698.85003; Fax 06-698.84716. Nineteen specialists in personal study and mutual and broad-ranging interaction provide in this volume a survey of the essential core points...