New Issue of Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics is Now Available

September 1, 2011

Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (Volume 39, Issue 3, Fall 2011) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Introduction: The Prospects for Public Health Reform” by Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, 312-316.

• “Improving the Population’s Health: The Affordable Care Act and the Importance of Integration” by Lorian E. Hardcastle, Katherine L. Record, Peter D. Jacobson and Lawrence O. Gostin, 317-327.

• “From Health Care Reform to Public Health Reform” by Micah L. Berman, 328–339.

• “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Health, and the Elusive Target of Human Rights” by Lance Gable, 340–354.

• “The Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Mandate: Breaking Down the Barriers to Nationwide Access to Preventive Services” by John Aloysius Cogan Jr., 355–365.

• “PPACA and Public Health: Creating a Framework to Focus on Prevention and Wellness and Improve the Public’s Health” by Gwendolyn Roberts Majette, 366–379.

• “Obesity and Health System Reform: Private vs. Public Responsibility” by Y. Tony Yang and Len M. Nichols, 380–386.

• “Congress, Courts, and Commerce: Upholding the Individual Mandate to Protect the Public’s Health” by James G. Hodge Jr., Erin C. Fuse Brown, Daniel G. Orenstein and Sarah O’Keefe, 394–400.

• “The Individual Mandate: Implications for Public Health Law” by Wendy E. Parmet, 401–413.

• “Conscripted Physician Services and the Public’s Health” by Marshall B. Kapp, 414–424.

• “Improving Health Care Outcomes through Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness Based on Electronic Health Records” by Sharona Hoffman and Andy Podgurski, 425–436.

• “The New Era of Comparative Effectiveness: Will Public Health End Up Left Behind?” by Richard S. Saver, 437–449.

• “The Law, Policy, and Ethics of Employers’ Use of Financial Incentives to Improve Health” by Kristin M. Madison, Kevin G. Volpp and Scott D. Halpern, 450–468.

• “When Public Health and Genetic Privacy Collide: Positive and Normative Theories Explaining How ACA’s Expansion of Corporate Wellness Programs Conflicts with GINA’s Privacy Rules” by Jennifer S. Bard, 469–487.

• “Justice, Fairness, and Membership in a Class: Conceptual Confusions and Moral Puzzles in the Regulation of Human Subjects Research” by Ana S. Iltis, 488–501.

• “Inclusion of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Genetic Research: Advance the Spirit by Changing the Rules?” by Sarah Knerr, Dawn Wayman and Vence L. Bonham, 502–512.

• “Paying Human Subjects in Research: Where Are We, How Did We Get Here, and Now What?” by Ari VanderWalde and Seth Kurzban, 543–558.