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

June 12, 2011

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Volume 39, Issue 2, May 12, 2011) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Introduction: Caring for the Seriously Ill: Cost and Public Policy” by Thaddeus M. Pope, Robert M. Arnold and Amber E. Barnato, 111-113.

• “End-of-Life Care: A Philosophical or Management Problem?” by Daniel Callahan, 114-120.

• “The Ethical Implications of Health Spending: Death and Other Expensive Conditions” by Dan Crippen and Amber E. Barnato, 121-129.

• “Care, Compassion, or Cost: Redefining the Basis of Treatment in Ethics and Law” by Tom Koch, 130-139.

• “Health Care Accessibility for Chronic Illness Management and End-of-Life Care: A View from Rural America” by Kathryn E. Artnak, Richard M. McGraw and Vayden F. Stanley, 140-155.

• “Just Caring: Health Care Rationing, Terminal Illness, and the Medically Least Well Off” by Leonard M. Fleck, 156-171.

• “Futility, Autonomy, and Cost in End-of-Life Care” by Mary Ann Baily, 172-182.

• “Making the Case for Talking to Patients about the Costs of End-of-Life Care” by Greer Donley and Marion Danis, 183-193.

• “The Value of Life at the End of Life: A Critical Assessment of Hope and Other Factors” by Paul T. Menzel, 215-223.

• “In the Business of Dying: Questioning the Commercialization of Hospice” by Joshua E. Perry and Robert C. Stone, 224-234.