The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Introduction Multiple scholars and institutions have asked what distinguishes public health research from public health practice.1 Most often,...

"Privacy considerations no longer arise out of particular individual problems; rather, they express conflicts affecting everyone."1 Along with...

The concept of brain death was recently described as being "at once well settled and persistently unresolved."1 Every...

Xenotransplantation is defined as "any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation, or infusion into a human recipient of...

I. An Introduction: Taking Moral Diversity and Limited Political Authority Seriously This essay does not directly address organ...

Introduction Recent developments in organ procurement have revived the much-debated role of markets in our health care system.1...

Discourse about the use of animals in biomedical research usually focuses on two issues. The first, which I...

This is the God Squad. It is faceless, impersonal, unmoved by tragedy, almost terrorist in aspect. The photo...

The 2005 Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship, which took place on September 9-10, 2005, focused on new and...

Dear Editor In "To Tell or Not to Tell: Disclosing Medical Error" (Journal of Law, Medicine £s? Ethics...

In this issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, we present the symposium "Reflections on Emerging...

This project focuses on the extent to which disability insurers should be allowed to use genetic information in...

30th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference Boston University School of Law Boston, MA May 31 - June 2,...

In addition to disability insurance purchased privately by individuals or employers, three other major types of disability insurance...

One of the most important and contentious policy issues surrounding genetics is whether genetic information should be treated...

The Human Genome Project has allowed researchers to gain new insights into the genetic causes of health and...

As we enter the new century, humanity wields increasing power to understand, alter, and control the world in...

The idea that disability insurers would benefit if the use of predictive genetic testing expands may seem little...

This article discusses the disability insurance industry in order to provide context regarding the potential impact of genetic...

Predictive medical information is used by underwriters to assess the future risk of a claim in medically based...