Volume I: Spring 2001

The Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics has proudly published a symposium issue on Current Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. [ Journal cover (pdf) ]

This issue is complimentary and all of the articles can be accessed below. Subscription information for future issues can be found on this website.

Click here for an Introduction to the Journal from the Editors-in-Chief.

Many of the articles in Volume I are derived from a symposium on Current Racial and Ethnic Disparitites in Health, which was held at the Yale Law School in February 2001.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COMMENTARY

  • Our Commitment to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
    David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
    [ Abstract | Full text (pdf) ]

ARTICLES

  • Site of Medical Care: Do Racial and Ethnic Differences Persist?
    Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Dr.P.H., Rose Marie Martinez, Sc.D., and Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D.
    [ Abstract | Full text (pdf) ]
  • The Meanings of "Race" in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research
    Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D., Joanna Mountain, Ph.D., and Barbara A. Koenig, Ph.D.
    [ Abstract | Full text (pdf) ]
  • The Proposed Patients' Bill of Rights: The Case of the Missing Equal Protection Clause
    Dean M. Hashimoto, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.
    [ Abstract | Full text (pdf) ]
  • Race and Discretion in American Medicine
    M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D.
    [ Abstract | Full text (pdf) ]
  • Understanding Disparities in the Use of Medicare Services
    Marian E. Gornick, M.A., Paul W. Eggers, Ph.D., and Gerald F. Riley, M.S.P.H.
    [ Abstract | Full text (pdf) ]

CASE  STUDIES

  • Introduction to Pegram v. Herdrich, 530 U.S. 211 (2000)
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Pegram v. Herdrich: A Victory for HMOs or The Beginning of the End for ERISA Preemption?
    Phyllis C. Borzi, J.D., M.A.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • A Perspective from Within the White Coat
    R. Dobbin Chow, M.D.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Dividing Loyalties: Caring for Individuals and Populations
    Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Pegram v. Herdrich: The Supreme Court Confronts Managed Care
    Timothy S. Jost, J.D.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Pegram's Significance for Managed Health Care
    Louis Saccoccio, J.D.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Mismanaged Care: The Challenges Facing Judicial Interpretation of Contemporary Health Policy
    Mark Schlesinger, Ph.D.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]

DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS IN THE LAW

  • Question: How Are States Regulating the Use of Drugs and Alcohol During Pregnancy?
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Punitive Versus Public Health Oriented Responses to Drug Use by Pregnant Women
    Jean Reith Schroedel, Ph.D. and Pamela Fiber, M.A.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Synopsis of State Case and Statutory Law
    The Journal's Editorial Staff
    [ Full text (pdf) ]

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Managing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The Transition from Cure to Comfort, edited by J. Randall Curtis and Gordon D. Rubenfeld (2001)
    Reviewed by: Nancy Dubler, LL.B.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, by Lawrence O. Gostin (2000)
    Reviewed by: David P. Fidler, J.D., M.Phil.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research, edited by Paul Lauritzen (2001)
    Reviewed by: Evelyne Shuster, Ph.D.
    [ Full text (pdf) ]
  • Book Notes
    [ Full text (pdf) ]