...Laurence R. Tancredi This paper addresses some of the ethical and legal issues involving the rights of psychiatric patients to refuse treatment. Particular attention is focused on two recently decided cases— Rogers v. Okins , and Rennie v. Klein —that deal with the rights of involuntarily committed...

...Sherry I. Brandt-Rauf; Paul W. Brandt-Rauf Recent court decisions have stressed the necessity for cost-benefit analysis in evaluating Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA) standards, thus raising difficult ethical questions which this paper analyzes using classical approaches...

..., Ethics, and Politics: Policy Lessons of the ESRD Experience Arthur L. Caplan, The Hastings Center Abstract. This article examines the policy lessons to be learned from the Amer- ican experience with the End-Stage Renal Disease program. This program was instituted in 1972...

...Joseph J. Fins Samuel Gorovitz. Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. 195 pp. $14.95, paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 906 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Samuel...

...Jon F. Merz Books Review Essay Is Human Subjects Research (Ethics) in Crisis? Baruch A. Brody. The Ethics of Biomedical Research: An Interna- tional Perspective. New York: Oxford University...

... historiography of New York’s public health movements. David Rosner, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan, Ethical Issues in Biomed- ical Publication. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000...

...Caroline Whitbeck Books Review Essay Why the Attention to Paternalism in Medical Ethics? James F. Childress, Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 250 pp., $24.95 There are two problems with the present emphasis on paternalism...

...Dan W. Brock Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The Role of Ethics in the Clinton Reform Proposal Dan W. Brock Brown University...

...Dan W. Brock Troyen A. Brennan. Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. 287 pp. $38.00 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 268 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law ture. One hopes...

... the supply of organs for transplantation from the deceased. Ethical issues were raised in government committees appointed to discuss the policy before its approval, but discussions among laypeople were not solicited. This study aimed to elicit laypeople's views about the policy by conducting thirteen group...

... of Egalitarian Justice . Ethics 99 : 906 – 944 . Collins S. R. Davis K. Doty M. M. Kriss J. L. Holmgren A. L. . 2006 . Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem: Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey . New York : Commonwealth Fund...

...Denis G. Arnold; James L. Oakley As the pharmaceutical industry lobbies European regulators to permit direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs in the European Union, we found that five leading companies violated industry-developed and -promulgated standards for ethical...

... to the “accountability for reasonableness” framework proposed by the philosopher Norman Daniels and endorsed by NICE, there also needs to be transparency about the substantive ethical grounds for public health care resource allocation decisions. In that spirit, I analyze eleven potentially relevant justifications...

...Scott L. Greer Cohen I. Glenn , ed. The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 454+xxiv pp. $95.00 cloth. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The American health care industry, as this book argues...

... the prevailing market ethic of individual responsibility and minimal collective obligations to protect and preserve life is replaced with a new public health ethic rooted in social justice. This new ethic would assign the highest priority to life and would stress the obligations of all citizens to share...

...Timothy E. Quill Linda L. Emanuel, ed. Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical,and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide. Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1998. 304 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 American Medical Association...

...M. Gregg Bloche © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.5 17 Bloche 10/29/01 4:39 PM Page 1099 The Market for Medical Ethics M. Gregg Bloche Georgetown University Law...

...James F. Childress Robert M. Veatch, A Theory of Medical Ethics (New York: Basic Books, 1981), 387 pp., $20.95 Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 178 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Robert M. Veatch,A Theory of Medical Ethics...

...John F. Kilner In light of the growing prominence of an age criterion in patient selection, it is essential to scrutinize the ethical legitimacy of arguments being offered both for and against using age as a criterion. Accordingly, the present study first explores the primary justifications...

... and its underlying rationale; and the possibility that changes in that program may jeopardize the chances for a more rational, just, and systematic approach to the provision of health care to all Americans. Medicare Reform: Social and Ethical Perspectives Ronald Bayer and Daniel...