The Summer 2025 issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics has just gone live! Print subscribers should receive their issues in the next few weeks. If you are an ASLME member, log in to this website, go to Member Home, and click on “Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics” to access all articles in the issue.
Authors with a red circle (🔴) preceding their name are ASLME members.
The issue features the following articles:
Letter from the Editors
Thank You to Our 2024 Peer Reviewers
🔴Aaron S. Kesselheim and Nicole Gustas
Independent Articles
Assessing Federal Policies to Reduce Economic Barriers to Clinical Trial Enrollment
Daniel Albert-Rozenberg, David Peloquin, Joseph Liss, Erika Hanson, and Barbara E. Bierer
Commentary
Putting Financial Compensation for Research in a Different Risk Framework
🔴Jill A. Fisher
Moral Permissibility and Desert in the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction
Ozan Gurcan
Commentary
Human Nature and Human Enhancement
David B. Resnik
Gestational Surrogacy, the Pope, and Needs for Regulations
Robert Klitzman
Commentary
Federalism, Science, and State Regulation of Reproduction
🔴Lindsay F. Wiley
Characteristics of Scald Burns Caused by Child Abuse in the United States: A Systematic Review
Wendy C. Shields, Evelyn Shiang, Marisa Koontz, Jon Vernick, and Shannon Frattaroli
Commentary
Reducing Bias Against Families in Low-Income Homes
Rupali Gandhi and Jill Glick
Addressing the Problem of Brain Death Misdiagnosis
Marjorie Fitzsimmons, Katherine Drabiak, and Prithvi Shetty
Commentary
Addressing the Problem of Brain Death Misdiagnosis: A ‘Just’ Evaluation of a Difficult Problem
Christopher A. DeCock and Cody F. Feikles
Psychedelic Treatment with Psilocybin: Addressing Medical Malpractice Risk and Physicians’ Concerns
Katherine Cheung, Maxwell Brodie, Sue-Ling Chang, Pierre Deschamps, Jean-Sébastien Fallu, Houman Farzin, Johanne Hébert, Jean-François Stephan, Michel Dorval, and Yann Joly
Commentary
Responding to the Current Psychedelics Landscape: A Call for Cross-Sector Collaboration
🔴Lori Bruce
Is Assisted Dying Really a Matter for Medical Regulation?
🔴Jennifer Hardes Dvorak
Commentary
In Defense of the Involvement of the Medical Profession in Assisted Dying
🔴Al O. Giwa, Melissa A. Myers, and Pamela B. Teaster
Concussion Management Policy Implementation in High Schools: Examining Policy Through a Disproportionality Lens
Courtney W. Hess, Julia K. Campbell, Holly Hackman, Laura Hayden, and Jonathan Howland
Democracy Matters for Child Health
Katherine Hoops, Phillip Cohen, Lee Goeddel, and Caroline Fredrickson
Commentary
Women’s Democratic Empowerment Matters for Child Health
Leslie Ann McNolty and 🔴Jeremy R. Garrett
Climate Change and Mental Health: A Human Rights Perspective
Samvel Varvastian
Commentary
The Unsettled but Promising Interconnection of Human Rights, Mental Health, and Climate Change
🔴Lance Gable
Columns
Health Policy Portal
Impostor Syndrome: Fraudulent Participants in Qualitative Research Can Skew Results
Leah Z. Rand, Sarah McGraw, Junyi Wang, Jonathan J. Darrow, and 🔴Aaron S. Kesselheim
Global Health Law
Legal Preparedness as a Foundation of Global Health Security
🔴Benjamin Mason Meier, Ntiense A. Inyang, Katherine Ginsbach, Ana Ayala, Sandro Bonfigli, Maria Chiara Campisi, Emanuele Cesta, Ryan Doerzbacher, Tina Endericks, 🔴Sam Halabi, Soawapak Hinjoy, Erin Jones, Stefania Negri, and Sonam K. Shah
Teaching Health Law
Training Future Public Health Professional in Law: Results from a Pilot Curriculum
Florence Pham, Jami Crespo, Montrece Ransom, and Tyra Satchell
Public Health and the Law
Legal Strategies Countering Federal Public Health Data Purges
🔴James G. Hodge
Obituary
Honoring a Lasting Impact: Dr. Tom Beauchamp
🔴Jalayne J. Arias and 🔴Leslie E. Wolf
In Memoriam – Professor George J. Annas
Leonard H. Glantz and 🔴Wendy K. Mariner
In Memoriam: Stephanie Solomon Cargill
Erica Salter, Emily Anderson, Nada Gligorov, Jessica Mozersky, and Patricia Piechowski
