Most Recent Articles from Issues in Law & Medicine

• Brain death: can it be resuscitated? 

  ABSTRACT: Why is a patient with a destroyed brain considered dead rather than moribund and irreversibly comatose? The world has been grappling with...

  06/22/09 by D. Alan Shewmon · More from publication

• Controversies in the determination of death: the philosophical debate: President's Council on Bioethics 

  Why do we describe the central question of this inquiry as a philosophical question? We do so, in part, because this question cannot be settled by...

  06/22/09 · More from publication

• If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo 

  Shepherd, Lois. If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...

  06/22/09 · More from publication

• Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint 

  Gostin, Lawrence O. Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008; 609-883-1759. Gostin,...

  06/22/09 · More from publication

• Bioethics and the Law 

  Dolgin, Janet L. & Lois L. Shepherd. Bioethics and the Law. New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2009; http://lawschool.aspenpublisher.com. Dolgin, Janet L....

  06/22/09 · More from publication

• Brief Amicus Curiae in Robert Baxter versus State of Montana 

  In its ruling in Baxter v. Montana, (1) the District Court ruled that physicians who assist patients' suicides are protected from liability under...

  06/22/09 · More from publication

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