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David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Professor.
What Doctors Don’t Tell Us
The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals
by Natalie Robins
February 29, 1996 issue
The Crime of Punishment
Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS, Western Style?
by Nils Christie
Prison Conditions in the United States
a Human Rights Watch report
Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System
by Norval Morris and Michael Tonry
A Decade of Sentencing Guidelines: Revisiting the Role of the Legislature
Wake Forest Law Review Summer 1993 issue
February 17, 1994 issue
Rationing Life
Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection
by John F. Kilner
Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care
by Paul T. Menzel
What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress
by Daniel Callahan
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society
by Daniel Callahan
Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State
by Troyen A. Brennan
Patrimony: A True Story
by Philip Roth
Someday
by Andrew H. Malcolm
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
by Derek Humphry
March 5, 1992 issue
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