Holden outlines events in the "Baby Jane Doe" case leading up to a Department of Justice suit in November 1983 against the State University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York, to obtain the infant's medical records. Parents ...

Recent American developments in the debate over the legal and ethical aspects of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining technologies are reported, and details are given of a 1983 California case involving charges brought ...

Responding to a preceding article by J.D. Swales, Smith argues against medical ethics as the domain solely of physicians and advocates incorporating instruction in ethical analysis into the medical curriculum. He supports ...