Volume II, Issue 1, Fall 2001, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics

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