Issues in Law & Medicine articles from June 2007

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from June 2007

The legal status of abortion in the States if Roe v. Wade is overruled.
June 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This article explores the legal status of abortion in the States if the Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973), as modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)....

Fifty years of organ transplants: the successes and the failures.
June 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: More than fifty years have now passed since the first successful human organ transplant. During that time, substantial progress has been made in both surgical techniques and immunosuppressive drug therapy. As a result, transplant...

Natural disaster, unnatural deaths: the killings on the life care floors at Tenet's Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina.
June 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This article examines the meaning of the killing of four patients with disabilities on the Life Care ward of Tenet's Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in anticipation of hurricane Katrina. None were terminally ill. None were in...

Gonzales v. Carhart. (woman's right to abortion)
June 22, 2007... HELD: The federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is not void for vagueness and does not impose an undue burden on a woman's right to abortion based on overbreadth or lack of health exception. The State has the power to restrict abortions after...

Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Dellapena, Joseph W. Dispelling the Myths of Abortion. Durham, N.C.: Carolina academic press, 2006; www.cap-press.com. This book of 1,097 pages covers over 1,000 years of abortion history in England and America, with special emphasis on the...

A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Wailoo, Keith, Julie Livingston, & Peter Guarnaccia, eds. A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. Chapel Hill, N.C.: the university of North Carolina press, 2006; www.uncpress.unc.edu. ...

The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Gorsuch, Neil M. The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton university press, 2006; www.pup.princeton.edu. The author provides a thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide...

Doctors Talking with Patients/Patients Talking with Doctors: Improving Communication in Medical Visits, 2d ed.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Roter, Debra L. & Judith A. Hall. Doctors Talking with Patients/Patients Talking with Doctors: Improving Communication in Medical Visits, 2nd ed. Westport, Conn.: Praeger publishers, 2006; www.praeger.com. Since the publication of the...

Defending Life 2007: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Burke, Denise M., ed. Defending Life 2007: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life. Chicago, Ill.: Americans united for life, 2007; www.AUL.org. This book includes a tribute in memoriam to Professor Victor...