Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics 

About: Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Health care & Public health. It has an ISSN identifier of 1073-1105. Over the lifetime, 3097 publications have been published receiving 46466 citations. The journal is also known as: Journal of law, medicine and ethics & JLME.

Parental Influence on Eating Behavior: Conception to Adolescence

Abstract: The first years of life mark a time of rapid development and dietary change, as children transition from an exclusive milk diet to a modified adult diet. During these early years, children's learning about food and eating plays a central role in shaping subsequent food choices, diet quality, and weight status. Parents play a powerful role in children's eating behavior, providing both genes and environment for children. For example, they influence children's developing preferences and eating behaviors by making some foods available rather than others, and by acting as models of eating behavior. In addition, parents use feeding practices, which have evolved over thousands of years, to promote patterns of food intake necessary for children's growth and health. However in current eating environments, characterized by too much inexpensive palatable, energy dense food, these traditional feeding practices can promote overeating and weight gain. To meet the challenge of promoting healthy weight in children in the current eating environment, parents need guidance regarding alternatives to traditional feeding practices.

Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain

Abstract: , 30 (2002): 170 –178.© 2002 by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.ublic health ethics, like the field of public health itaddresses, traditionally has focused more on practiceand particular cases than on theory, with the resultthat some concepts, methods, and boundaries remain largelyundefined. This paper attempts to provide a rough concep-tual map of the terrain of public health ethics. We begin bybriefly defining public health and identifying general fea-tures of the field that are particularly relevant for a discussionof public health ethics.Public health is primarily concerned with the health ofthe entire population, rather than the health of individuals.Its features include an emphasis on the promotion of healthand the prevention of disease and disability; the collectionand use of epidemiological data, population surveillance,and other forms of empirical quantitative assessment; a rec-ognition of the multidimensional nature of the determinantsof health; and a focus on the complex interactions of manyfactors — biological, behavioral, social, and environmental— in developing effective interventions.How can we distinguish public health from medicine?While medicine focuses on the treatment and cure of indi-vidual patients, public health aims to understand andameliorate the causes of disease and disability in a popula-tion. In addition, whereas the physician-patient relationshipis at the center of medicine, public health involves interac-tions and relationships among many professionals andmembers of the community as well as agencies of govern-ment in the development, implementation, and assessmentof interventions. From this starting point, we can suggestthat public health systems consist of all the people and ac-tions, including laws, policies, practices, and activities, thathave the primary purpose of protecting and improving thehealth of the public.

Managing incidental findings in human subjects research: Analysis and recommendations

Abstract: Researchers, institutional review boards (IRBs), participants in human subjects research, and their families face an important but largely neglected problem — how should incidental findings (IFs) be managed in human subjects research. If researchers unexpectedly stumble upon information of potential health or reproductive significance, should they seek expert evaluation, contact the participant’s physician, tell the research participant, or respond with some combination? What should consent forms and the entire consent process say about how IFs will be handled in research? What should IRBs require?

Weaving Technology and Policy Together to Maintain Confidentiality

Abstract: Author demonstrates that removing all explicit identifiers from medical data does not guarantee medical record confidentiality. She examines three new software systems that do help maintain anonymity, but warns that systems' limitations demand complementary policies.

The girl who cried pain: a bias against women in the treatment of pain.

Abstract: To the woman, God said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in child bearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”Genesis 3:16 There is now a well-established body of literature documenting the pervasive inadequate treatment of pain in this country. There have also been allegations, and some data, supporting the notion that women are more likely than men to be undertreated or inappropriately diagnosed and treated for their pain. One particularly troublesome study indicated that women are more likely to be given sedatives for their pain and men to be given pain medication. Speculation as to why this difference might exist has included the following: Women complain more than men; women are not accurate reporters of their pain; men are more stoic so that when they do complain of pain, “it's real”; and women are better able to tolerate pain or have better coping skills than men.