In the wake of the Supreme Court's right-to-die decision in the Cruzancase, 1 health lawyers'
phones rang off the hook, ethics committees called urgent meetings, and medical ethicists …

Perhaps no decision in recent bioethical memory has stirred such philosophical and
jurisprudential debate as the United States Supreme Court's decision in Cruzan v. Director …

The judicial philosophy that supports competent and incompetent patients' decisions to
decline medical treatment has long been recognized. It is, therefore, not without a vested …

The Missouri Supreme Court decision on Nancy Cruzan is, in my judgment, so bad that it
may prove to be pedagogically useful. It is muddled, confused and/or downright wrong on …

What a difference a year makes. AS I write this, one year has passed since June 25, 1990,
when the Supreme Court for the first time addressed an issue that has been one of the major …

I n the months since the Cruzarz decision [l], many commentators have decried it as a
“tragedy” because (1) it did not end Nancy Cruzan's personal misfortune,(2) it permits too …

Cruzan v Director ofMissouri Department ofPublic Health, the American Medical Association
has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to recognize such a right …

Although the US Supreme Court justices frequently alluded to ethical concepts in delivering
their opinions in the Cruzan decision, no clear or consistent ethical framework supported this …

The United States Supreme Court's opinion in Cruzan" has several quite interesting
implications beyond its immediate impact on the care given to Nancy Cruzan. First, the …

Just over a year has elapsed since the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in
Cruzan. In the year prior to and since the decision there have been a substantial number of …