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Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer reviewed medical and legal professional journal published semiannually. Founded in 1985, ILM is published by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Issues is devoted to providing technical and informational assistance to attorneys, health care professionals, educators and administrators on legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from health care decisions. Prior to becoming open access in 2023, its 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 publishes original medical, legal, and ethical articles and verbatim legal documents. See editorial policies for additional information about the scope of Issues in Law and Medicine.
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:
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A peer-reviewed publication of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Editor-in-Chief Barry A. Bostrom, M.Div., J.D.
Associate Editor
David Prentice, Ph.D
Associate Editor
Donna Harrison, M.D. dip. ABOG
Kirk C. Alison, Ph.D., M.S., Professor University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
Watson A. Bowes Jr., M.D., Emeritus Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Gerard V. Bradley, J.D., Professor University of Notre Dame Law School, Indiana
Byron Calhoun, M.D. FACOG, FACS, MBA West Virginia University, Charleston
Steve Calvin, M.D., Maternal Fetal Medicine Minneapolis, Minnesota
Monique V. Chireau, M.D., M.P.H. Duke University, North Carolina
Priscilla K. Coleman, Ph.D., Professor Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Michelle A. Cretella, M.D. American College of Pediatricians Gainesville, Florida
Jokin de Irala, M.D., MPH, Ph.D. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Navarra Pamplona, Spain
Curtis E. Harris, M.D., J.D. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
John Keown, M.A., D.Phil., Ph.D., Professor Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University
Martin J. McCaffrey, M.D., Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Patrick Quirk, LL.B., LL.M., Associate Professor Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Roy G. Spece, Jr., J.D., Professor University of Arizona College of Law
Dennis M. Sullivan, M.D., M.A. Director, Center for Bioethics Cedarville University, Ohio
John M. Thorp, M.D., Professor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Quentin Van Meter, M.D., FCP Atlanta, Georgia
Issues in Law & Medicine, is an open access peer reviewed, professional e-journal. Please address all correspondence, including letters to the Editor, to:
Issues in Law & Medicine, Office of Publications, 7700 N. 37th Street, Terre Haute, IN 47805, or bcbostrom@gmail.com.
Issues in Law & Medicine (ISSN 8756-8160) is published two times per year, by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Copyright © 2023 by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this Journal may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo-copying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the Publisher.
Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. Issues in Law & Medicine is devoted to providing technical and informational assistance to attorneys, health care professionals, bioethicists, educators, and administrators concerned with the broad range of legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from the provision of health care services.
The National Legal Center invites the submission of papers to be published in Issues in Law & Medicine. Submitted papers are reviewed by experts in the area of the papers’ content, and papers should conform to the highest professional standards.
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