Issues in Law & Medicine articles from March 1995

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from March 1995

Medical treatment rights of older persons and persons with disabilities: 1993-94 developments.
March 22, 1995... This article reviews legal developments from the beginning of October 1993 to the end of December 1994. It addresses assisted suicide and health care access and decisionmaking with particular concern for the interests of persons with...

'Slapping up spastics': the persistence of social attitudes toward people with disabilities.
March 22, 1995... If the physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether a life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.(1) A Personal Statement I am the author of...

Assisted suicide and older poeple - a deadly combination: ethical problems in permitting assisted suicide.
March 22, 1995... On June 4, 1990, fifty-four-year-old Janet Adkins ended her life lying on a cot in the back of a Volkswagen van parked in a Michigan suburb. Aided by a retired pathologist, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Adkins was hooked up to his homemade "suicide...

The role of the courts in terminating life-sustaining medical treatment.
March 22, 1995... In this article I address the issues generated by a mother's decision to withdraw further life-sustaining medical treatment from her daughter, who languished for nine years in a nursing home in a persistent vegetative state. In 1983 the daughter,...

The role of courts in terminating nutrition and hydration for incompetent patients. (response to article by Charles M. Leibson in this issue, p. 437)
March 22, 1995... This is a review of issues considered in a recent Kentucky Supreme Court opinion(1) in which a majority of the court authorized the discontinuance of gastrostomy tubes used to provide nourishment and water to an incompetent person. Joined by...

Competence to Consent.
March 22, 1995... White, Becky Cox. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1994. The author, an associate professor of philosophy at California State University, provides a concise introduction to the key practical, philosophical, and moral issues...

AIDS and the New Orphans.
March 22, 1995... Dane, Barbara O. & Carol Levine, eds. Westport, Conn.: Auburn House, 1994. By the year 2000, as many as 125,000 children under the age of eighteen in the U.S. will have been orphaned by AIDS. Social services in major cities such as New York,...

Health Care Reform: A Human Rights Approach.
March 22, 1995... Chapman, Audrey R., ed. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1994. Arguing that health care should be a human right rather than a commodity, the contributors to this volume call for a new social covenant establishing a right to a...

Allocating Health Care Resources.
March 22, 1995... Humber, James M. & Robert F. Almeder. Totowa, N.J.: The Humana Press, 1995. In this volume, scholars and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors...

Code of Medical Ethics: Current Opinions with Annotations, 1994 ed.
March 22, 1995... Council on Ethical and judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association. 1994 ed. Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association, 1994. This publication includes the Current Opinions with Annotations of the Council on Ethical and judicial...