Caring for the Seriously Ill: Cost and Public Policy - Symposium

I just noticed that the publisher has posted the summer 2011 issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.  The bulk of this issue is comprised of a symposium that I assembled and edited with Robert Arnold and Amber Barnato titled “Caring for the Seriously Ill: Cost and Public Policy.”  Here is the table of contents:

• INTRODUCTION: Caring for the Seriously Ill: Cost and Public Policy (pages 111–113) -- Thaddeus M. Pope, Robert M. Arnold and Amber E. Barnato


• End-of-Life Care: A Philosophical or Management Problem? (pages 114–120) -- Daniel Callahan


• The Ethical Implications of Health Spending: Death and Other Expensive Conditions (pages 121–129) -- Dan Crippen and Amber E. Barnato


• Care, Compassion, or Cost: Redefining the Basis of Treatment in Ethics and Law (pages 130–139) -- Tom Koch


• Health Care Accessibility for Chronic Illness Management and End-of-Life Care: A View from Rural America (pages 140–155) -- Kathryn E. Artnak, Richard M. McGraw and Vayden F. Stanley


• Just Caring: Health Care Rationing, Terminal Illness, and the Medically Least Well Off (pages 156–171) -- Leonard M. Fleck


• Futility, Autonomy, and Cost in End-of-Life Care (pages 172–182) -- Mary Ann Baily


• Making the Case for Talking to Patients about the Costs of End-of-Life Care (pages 183–193) -- Greer Donley and Marion Danis


• Costs and End-of-Life Care in the NICU: Lessons for the MICU? (pages 194–200) -- John D. Lantos and William L. Meadow


• End-of-Life Decision Making across Cultures (pages 201–214) -- Robert H. Blank


• The Value of Life at the End of Life: A Critical Assessment of Hope and Other Factors (pages 215–223) -- Paul T. Menzel


• In the Business of Dying: Questioning the Commercialization of Hospice (pages 224–234) -- Joshua E. Perry and Robert C. Stone