Issues in Law & Medicine articles from September 1999

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from September 1999

The healing profession needs healers: the crisis in medical education.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: In this article, Dean and professor Albert E. Gunn explains that there is something wrong with the medical profession today. The lack of opposition by physicians to current practices that contravene basic human nature is disturbing....

Narrating genetic disabilities: social constructs, medical treatment, and public policy.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: The article compares three memoirs of genetically based disability: Lisa Roney's sweet, invisible body, Georgina Kleege's Sight Unseen, and Alice Wexler's Mapping Fate. The essay explores the tension between the narrow and the broad...

Physician-assisted suicide and public virtue: a reply to the liberty thesis of "The Philosophers' Brief".(response to amicus brief included in this issue, p. 159)
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT: The "Philosophers' Brief," penned by six of today's most influential philosophers, was submitted as an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court as it prepared to consider the cases of Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill. It...

Brief of Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents.(physician-assisted suicide; U.S. Supreme Court)(Transcript)
September 22, 1999... [2] Interest of the Amici Curiae Amici are six moral and political philosophers who differ on many issues of public morality and policy. Ihey are united, however, in their conviction that respect for fundamental principles of liberty...

Kevin Sampson v. State of Alaska.(physician-assisted suicide)(Alaska)(Transcript)
September 22, 1999... Order Denying the Plaintiffs' Motion For Summary Judgment and Granting The Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment Introduction This court is asked to rule on the constitutionality of the State of Alaska's criminal prohibition against...

Bioethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Rae, Scott B. & Paul M. Cox. Biethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999. As the foundational volume in the new Critical Issues in Bioethics series, this work addresses...