Medicine and the state may sound an unpromising subject for an afterdinner speech, but it is
only a paraphrase of" Health and the Lawthe title of last month's conference in Ottawa at …

A momentous event in the field of health law occurred in April of 1978: the first national
meeting of teachers of health law was held at Boston University. Of sixty individuals invited …

A s the health care system creaks under the competing forces of rising costs and ex-panding
technology, friction is developing between medicine, the law and medical ethics. The …

H, sr ealth law enthusiasts generally welcome the publication of a new reference text to
update their knowledge or to gain a different perspective. Unfortunately, apart from the fact …

The Health Law Journal is a peer reviewed publication. Authors are invited to submit papers
pertaining to medical-legal issues from a variety of perspectives, including law, philosophy …

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) will chal-the attorney general of Canada and the
attorney general lenge the" legality" of the Canada Health Act (CHA) of Ontario. and related …

Courtney. J. McClellan Journal of Law, Medicine & Healthcare. In 1993 the word" ethics"
was added to the title, completing the name of the journal you now hold in your hands, the …

Alzheimer's Disease: Treatment and Long-Term Management. Edited by Jeffrey L.
Cummings and Bruce L. Miller. Vol. 4 of Neuro-logical Disease and Therapy se-ries; editor …

This landmark social and economic analysis of the history of the American medical
profession has been widely praised as “remarkable,”'“scholarly and provocative... splendid,” …

T am concerned with the trend among anesthe-tists to" defensive practice", with the defence
directed towardpossible litigation. As an anesthetist I am often told that the use of a certain …