Issues in Law & Medicine articles from June 2004

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from June 2004

Creating clones, kids & chimera: liberal democratic compromise at the crossroads.
June 22, 2004... The objective of this article is to find middle ground between the supporters and opponents of biotechnology by perpetuating the existing legal compromise pertaining to the complete range of health and welfare doctrines relevant to the...

Dutch euthanasia: the new government ordered study.
June 22, 2004... A new nation-wide survey of euthanasia was commissioned in 2001 by the Dutch Ministers of Health and Justice, and the report on this study, a book of 272 pages, was published in the fall of 2003. (1) The study was led by the same investigators...

What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
June 22, 2004... Callahan, Daniel. What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2003; www.ucpress.edu. The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply...

The Stored Tissue Issue: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
June 22, 2004... Weir, Robert F. & Robert S. Olick. The Stored Tissue Issue: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004; 800-451-7556. Genetics research with stored human tissues provides...