Issues in Law & Medicine articles from March 1990

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from March 1990

Medical treatment for older people and people with disabilities: 1989 developments.
March 22, 1990... Pending before the United States Supreme Court are cases involving eligibility of children with disabilities for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and a guardian's authority to withhold nutrition and hydration from a permanently...

Is the continued provision of food and fluids in Nancy Cruzan's best interests?
March 22, 1990... Due to an automobile accident, Nancy Cruzan is in a permanently unconscious condition. She has been in this condition since 1983. She is not terminally ill, and experts suggest that she may live another thirty years. No clear and convincing...

Euthanasia: Opposing Views.
March 22, 1990... The purpose of the Opposing Viewpoints Series and this book is to present balanced and opposing points of view on complex and sensitive issues. Carefully edited opposing points of view are purposely place back to back to create a running...

Serving the Underserved: Caring for People Who Are Both Old and Mentally Retarded.
March 22, 1990... This is a resource book that is the result of a three-year project in health promotion sponsored by the Eunice Shriver Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, under the Kennedy Foundation. The materials describe the provision of care for a group of...

AIDS and Ethics: Biomedical Ethics Reviews, 1988.
March 22, 1990... The latest volume of Humbler and Almeder's Biomedical Ethics Reviews series is devoted to one timely topic: AIDS, indisputably today's most critical health threat. The very nature of AIDS has created a host of problems for ethicists,...

Judging Medicine.
March 22, 1990... George Annas, J.D., professor of health law at Boston University School of Medicine, presents a collection of essays, most of which have appeared in the Hastings Center Report, on patients' rights; conception; pregnancy and birth; reproductive...

Life on the Line.
March 22, 1990... When does life begin? When does it end? Just a few years ago, the average person was not asking these questions. But with the controversy over abortion and the advent of many new life-prolonging technologies, everyone will have to deal with...