Law, Medicine & Health Care : a Publication of the American Society of Law & Medicine
Overview
Law, Medicine & Health Care : a Publication of the American Society of Law & Medicine is a scientific journal, published since 1981 in English. The journal's country of origin is United States and its primary focus areas are general medicine, nursing, forensic sciences and medical ethics.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Law Med Health Care
Start
1981
End
1992
Frequency
Quarterly
p-ISSN
0277-8459
Country
United States
Language
English
Specialties
General Medicine
Nursing
Forensic Sciences
Medical Ethics
Nursing
Forensic Sciences
Medical Ethics
Recent Articles
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David H
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Oct;
20(3):188-94.
PMID: 11643042
It is the purpose of this article to review the current status of early pregnancy interruption with mifepristone (RU 486) combined with a prostaglandin analogue from the standpoint of its...
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Bloche M
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):392-402.
PMID: 11651561
In this article, I explore this failure [of the therapeutic exception as a compromise device in federal abortion counseling regulations] with an eye toward its broader lessons about the social...
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Burris S
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):377-91.
PMID: 11651560
So far, the law has been used more to limit than to encourage effective HIV education. In this article, I will discuss how the law has largely failed as a...
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Van McCrary S, Swanson J, Perkins H, Winslade W
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):364-76.
PMID: 11651559
In this study, we investigated physicians' attitudes, knowledge, and reported practices regarding the effects of perceived legal constraints on the abatement of life-sustaining treatment from patients who are clearly dying....
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Cohen C, Cohen P
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):354-63.
PMID: 11651558
It is time to change the assumption that DNR orders apply in every treatment setting in the hospital. It is appropriate to mandate not only that these orders be reconsidered...
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Meisel A
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):340-53.
PMID: 11651557
In 1990, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the Cruzan case, the first "right-to-die case" to reach that Court. Prior to the Court's decision, there was wide-spread...
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Brennan T
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):336-9.
PMID: 11651556
Given the history of the medical profession's diffident attitude toward patients' rights and its reliance on well-meaning paternalism, the notion that doctors should determine futility and limit access to specific...
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Grant E
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):330-5.
PMID: 11651555
I welcome the long-overdue recognition of medical futility represented by the contributions of Koch, et al., Miles, and Dew [in this issue of Law, Medicine and Health Care], although I...
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Alpers A, Lo B
Law Med Health Care
. 1992 Jan;
20(4):327-9.
PMID: 11651554
We do not like the idea of doctors and nurses being forced to provide care that offends their sense of themselves and their art. But we like even less the...