Recently added articles from Issues in Law & Medicine:
Brain death: can it be resuscitated?
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: Why is a patient with a destroyed brain considered dead rather than moribund and irreversibly comatose? The world has been grappling with this question for the past four decades with little success. The recently released white paper of the President's Council on Bioethics is in ...
Controversies in the determination of death: the philosophical debate: President's Council on Bioethics.
Jun 22, 2009 ... 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 appealing exclusively to clinical or pathophysiological facts. Those facts were our focus in the previous chapters in which we sought to ...
Brief Amicus Curiae in Robert Baxter versus State of Montana.
Jun 22, 2009 ... In its ruling in Baxter v. Montana, (1) the District Court ruled that physicians who assist patients' suicides are protected from liability under the State's homicide statute. (2) The Court mistakenly relied on Oregon as a laboratory in which legalized assisted suicide has been tested and ...
Other people's lives: reflections on medicine, ethics, and euthanasia.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Part One: In Defense of Medicine Chapter IX. On Therapy Dr. Loeb's Five Rules of Therapeutics. Dr. Robert F. Loeb was said to be "in semi-humorous vein" when he proposed his Rules: 1. The Golden Rule: Don't do to the patient what you wouldn't like to be ...
If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Shepherd, Lois. If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Through a wide-ranging re-examination of the Schiavo case's medical, legal, and media history, the author proposes a quality of ...