Issues in Law & Medicine articles from March 2008

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from March 2008

Pharmacists and the "duty" to dispense emergency contraceptives.
March 22, 2008... ABSTRACT: Stories abound of both women with prescriptions turned away at the pharmacy door and members of the most trusted health care profession losing jobs and running afoul of ethics rules. Scholars have spilt much intellectual ink divining...

Other people's lives: reflections on medicine, ethics, and euthanasia.
March 22, 2008... This book is about the transformation of traditional medicine into the modern "scientific" variety, and the patients' and doctors' adventures on this journey. It is also about losses. The ethical and intellectual costs of modernization are...

Life-sustaining treatment law: a model for balancing a woman's reproductive rights with a pharmacist's conscientious objection.
March 22, 2008... Natalie Langlois, Life-Sustaining Treatment Law: A Model for Balancing a Woman's Reproductive Rights With a Pharmacist's Conscientious Objection, 47 B.C.L. REV. 815 (2006). In recent years, there have been several incidents where...

From Eisenstadt to Plan B: a discussion of conscientious objections to emergency contraception.
March 22, 2008... Lynne Marie Kohm, From Eisenstadt to Plan B: A Discussion of Conscientious Objections to Emergency Contraception, 33 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 787 (2007). The common birth control pill is comprised of some combination of hormones that works in...

Cold comfort pharmacy: pharmacist tort liability for conscientious refusals to dispense emergency contraception.
March 22, 2008... Kristen Marttila Gast, Cold Comfort Pharmacy: Pharmacist Tort Liability for Conscientious Refusals to Dispense Emergency Contraception, 16 TEX. J. WOMEN & L. 149 (2007). Pharmacists on the whole are adamant that they have the ethical and...

Pharmacists and the morning after pill - who has the right to refuse the birth of a child?
March 22, 2008... Charlotte A. Graham, Pharmacists and the Morning After Pill--Who Has the Right to Refuse the Birth of a Child? 28 J. JUV. L. 100 (2007). Early abortions require removing an already implanted embryo from the uterus, either through the use of...

Pharmacist knows best? Enacting legislation in Oklahoma prohibiting pharmacists from refusing to provide emergency contraceptives.
March 22, 2008... Misty Cooper Watt, Pharmacist Knows Best? Enacting Legislation in Oklahoma Prohibiting Pharmacists from Refusing to Provide Emergency Contraceptives, 42 TULSA L. REV. 771 (2007). Since the FDA made emergency contraceptives available...

Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... George, Robert P. & Christopher Tollefsen. Embryo: A Defense of Human Life. New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 2008; www.doubleday.com. The national debate over abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research have created an unbridgeable gap...

Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Rose, Melody. Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008; www.greenwood.com. This reference work explores the evolution of America's abortion debate with over forty primary documents by doctors,...

Evaluating the Science and Ethics of Research on Humans: A Guide for IRB Members.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Mazur, Dennis J. Evaluating the Science and Ethics of Research on Humans: A Guide for IRB Members. Baltimore, M.D.: The John Hopkins University Press, 2007; www.press.jhu.edu. This is a reference guide for new and veteran members of IRBs...

Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.S. HIV/AIDS Epidemic: How They Slowed Advances and Were Resolved.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Holmberg, Scott D. Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.5. HIV/AIDS Epidemic: How They Slowed Advances and Were Resolved. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2008; www.praeger.com Part history, part narrative, and principally a...

Home-Centered Health Care: The Populist Transformation of the American Health Care System.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Magee, Mike. Home-Centered Health Care: The Populist Transformation of the American Health Care System. New York, N.Y.: Spencer Books, 2007; www.spencerbooks.com. This book offers a vision for today's complex and unruly health care...