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Recent opinions of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.

The text is provided of three Council opinions that were adopted by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at its annual meeting in June 1986. "Referral of patients--disclosure of limitations" holds that, if a preferred provider organization or a health maintenance organization contract does not permit referral to a noncontracting specialist or facility when the physician b...

From Constitutional Body to Policy Arena: Politics, Inescapable Companion of the Italian Judicial Council

The new architecture of the Italian Republic, set up in 1948, foresaw the creation of a High Judicial Council, entrusted with full competences in recruiting, promoting, assessing, and training judges and prosecutors. The new body began what has been called a long process of institutionalisation, which ended around the end of the 1970s. Such a process expanded its capacities to steer and govern ...

Medical student involvement in patient care: report of the council on ethical and judicial affairs.

Use of life-sustaining or invasive interventions in patients in a persistent vegetative state or who are terminally ill may only prolong the dying process. What constitutes futile intervention remains a point of controversy in the medical literature and in clinical practice. In clinical practice, controversy arises when the patient or proxy and the physician have discrepant values or goals of c...

Book Review: Ninth and Tenth Annual Reports of the Judicial Council of the State of New York

Judicial Elections and Judicial Independence: The Voter's Perspective

The relationship between judicial elections and judicial independence is receiving considerable scrutiny today. This article examines the impact of elections on judicial independence from the perspective of voters, since it is voters’ choices that ultimately determine the electoral fates of incumbent judges. The research on voting in judicial elections helps in understanding the circumstances t...