Issues in Law & Medicine articles from March 1994

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from March 1994

Quarterly report of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
March 22, 1994... The National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc., is pleased to announce that a new quarterly report of the National Legal Center's activities will be published as a regular feature in this and future editions of Issues in...

Medical treatment rights of older persons and persons with disabilities: 1992-93 developments and emerging trends.
March 22, 1994... This article reviews legal developments from the beginning of October 1992 to the end of September 1993. Three areas of concern will be addressed: medical decisionmaking, assisted suicide, and the impact of health care reform on end-of-life...

Gender and assisted and acquiescent suicide: a suicidologist's perspective.
March 22, 1994... Pope John Paul II predicted that the great moral issue of the 1980s would be euthanasia.(1) His prediction has indeed proven to be correct. According to Humphry and Wickett, of all euthanasia cases reported between 1920 and 1985, seventy...

Pseudoscience and the law: the case of the Oregon Medicaid rationing experiment.
March 22, 1994... Certainly one of the most extraordinary experiences of my tenure as General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was my participation in the extended review of the Oregon Medicaid rationing experiment. I...

Rodriguez v. Attorney General of Canada. (prohibition of assisted suicide)
March 22, 1994... HELD: Though persons have a "security interest" under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms against psychological distress occasioned by knowledge of governmental prohibition of assisted suicide, prohibition is justified by the...

ADA analyses of the Oregon health care plan.
March 22, 1994... Introduction In 1989, the Oregon legislature approved a plan to provide comprehensive health care coverage to all Oregon residents.(1) The plan would initially include Medicaid recipients(2) and would employ two innovations: managed...

Inquiries in Bioethics.
March 22, 1994... Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with issues in the life sciences, health, and health care. In this book the author explores nine representative bioethical issues loosely organized in a sequence from birth and youth to aging...