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History of ILM

Issues in Law and Medicine was founded in 1985 by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.  Subscribers included law libraries, medical libraries, university libraries, court libraries, attorneys, physicians, university professors and other scholars, primarily in the U.S. and Canada, but also in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

Issues has been cited in the published opinions of many state and federal courts of appeal, including the United States Supreme Court and several state supreme court opinions, and has been cited in more than 1,000 law review articles.

Issues has been listed in 26 periodical services, including the following:

 

DATABASES:

  • BIOETHICSLINE – the principal database for ethicists and researchers in ethics.
  • BIOSIS
  • EBSCO PUBLISING
  • ELSEVIER
  • EMBIOLOGY
  • GALE GROUP
  • H. W. WILSON CO.
  • INFONAUTICS CORP.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS – a major database for legal researchers; includes the full text of each edition.
  • MEDLARS/MEDLINE – the principal database for physicians and medical researchers.
  • PROQUEST
  • PUBMED
  • SCOPUS
  • WESTLAW – a major database for legal researchers.
  • WILLIAM S. HEIN

 

INDICES:

  • Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
  • Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Current Law Index
  • Hospital Literature Index
  • Index to Legal Periodicals – the principal index for attorneys and legal researchers.
  • Index Medicus – only one in five applicants are accepted for inclusion in this Index, which is used
    by physicians and medical researchers. This is the most difficult index in which to be accepted.
  • International Nursing Index
  • Social Sciences Citation Index

 

ABSTRACTED IN:

  • BioLaw – a literature and legal review with articles, summaries of articles, and court decisions.
  • Hastings Center Report – probably most read ethics journal.
  • Law, Medicine & Health Care – official journal of the American Society of Law & Medicine.
  • The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly – publication of the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
  • Specialty Law Digest: Health Care Cases – the best review of health care court decisions with a listing of recent journal articles.

 

ILM became an open access e-journal in 2023. (ISSN 2377-6463)

ILM transitioned publishing rights from the Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled to the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine in 2025, and changed the journal title to Issues in Law and Medicine A Journal of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine in 2026. 

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