Issues in Law & Medicine articles from September 1993

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from September 1993

The shortage of organs for transplantation: exploring the alternatives.
September 22, 1993... For more than a decade, medical practitioners, students of medical policy, organ procurement personnel, and other health care professionals have lamented the shortage of cadaveric organs for transplantation. This concern about the supply of...

Life as an intrinsic rather than instrumental good: the "spiritual" case against euthanasia.
September 22, 1993... "But your blood of your lives will I require; from the hand of every beast will I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of a person's brother, will I require the life of man."(1) This earliest and most detailed biblical...

The common good, terminal illness, and euthanasia.
September 22, 1993... In one sense, dying is the most personal and private of all events. Each of us comes to the end of a unique life and dies his or her own death. Along with birth, death sets the natural boundaries of a particular life's trajectory. But unlike...

The Netherlands: new regulations concerning euthanasia.
September 22, 1993... The new regulations concerning euthanasia were approved by the Lower House of Dutch Parliament (Tweede kamer) on February 9, 1993, and will become law if confirmed by the Higher House (Eerste Kamer). The new regulations do not abolish the...

Mercy or Murder? Euthanasia, Morality and Public Policy.
September 22, 1993... This book presents eighten previously published articles arguing in favor of and in opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Articles about advance directives and the withholding of nutrition and hydration are also included....

Standard of Care: The Law of American Bioethics.
September 22, 1993... American law, not philosophy or medicine, is the major force shaping American bioethics. This is both because law at its best fosters individual rights, equality, and justice and because violation of the legal duty or "standard of care" a...

Legal Issues in Mental Health Care.
September 22, 1993... A sound knowledge of mental health las is essential for clinicians gto understand and manage legal issues in their daily practice and to properly serve the therapeutic needs of their patients. In this practical guidebook, the authors provide...