The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues
to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of …

Many observers have concluded that we have a crisis of professionalism in the practice of
medicine. In this essay, the author identifies and discusses personal attributes and …

AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Assessment AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic
Assessment J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2015 Jun;43(2 Suppl):S3-53. Epub 2015 Jun 8 …

Objective: In advanced dementia, many difficult decisions may arise as the disease
progresses, including whether to use feeding by tube. Several recent articles question the …

The number of executions in the United States has increased as the acceptability of lethal
injection has increased. Despite the opposition of professional organisations, healthcare …

States have affirmed that physicians and nurses—including those who are prison
employees—have a right to refuse to participate in any way in executions. Yet they have …

Physicians frequently encounter situations in which their professional practice is
intermingled with moral affordances stemming from other domains of the physician's …

We surveyed physicians to determine what factors were associated with their reporting of
impaired colleagues to Physician Health Programs (PHPs). We conducted a cross-sectional …

Over the past several years, the most widely publicized issue in capital litigation has been
the constitutional status of states' lethal injection protocols. Death row inmates have not …

The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of the international nursing community the
discrepancy between a pervasive 'caring'nursing discourse and a most unethical nursing …