VOLUME II, ISSUE 1: Fall 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. COMMENTARY

    Is the U.S. Public Health System Ready for Bioterrorism? An Assessment of the U.S. Public Health Infrastructure and its Capacity for Infectious Disease Surveillance
    Raymond J. Baxter, Ph.D., Caroline R. Steinberg, M.B.A., and Jennifer R. Shapiro, M.P.H.

II. ARTICLES

    Two Cheers for Employment-Based Health Insurance
    David A. Hyman, M.D., J.D. and Mark Hall, J.D.

    Medical Standard of Care Jurisprudence as Evolutionary Process: Implications Under Managed Care
    Charles Markowitz, M.D.

    Justifying Government as the Backstop in Health Insurance Markets
    Katherine Swartz, Ph.D.

III. CASE STUDIES

    Should the Federal Government Fund Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

    Responses by:

      Samuel B. Casey, J.D. and Nathan A. Adams, J.D., Ph.D.
      R. Alta Charo, J.D.
      James F. Childress, Ph.D.
      Senator William Frist, M.D.
      Robert D. Orr, M.D., C.M. and C. Christopher Hook, M.D.
      Dan S. Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.
      David A. Prentice, Ph.D.

IV. BOOK REVIEW

    Ward Ethics: Dilemmas for Medical Students and Doctors in Training, edited by Thomasine K. Kushner and David C. Thomasma (2001).
    Reviewed by: Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., M.P.H. and Daniel E. Ford, M.D., M.P.H.

    Book Notes

    ©2002 by the Yale Law School. All rights reserved. ISSN 1535-3532.

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