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36 J.L. Med. & Ethics 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/medeth36 and id is 1 raw text is: LETTER FROM THE EDITOR THE JOURNAL OF LAW9 MIEDICIINB VOLUME 36:1 - SPRING 2008 EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Sandra H. Johnson, J.D., LL.M. Ana Smith Iltis, Ph.D. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Benjamin W. Moulton, J.D., M.P.H. EDITOR Edward J. Hutchinson ASSISTANT EDITOR Courtney J. Mc Clellan THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS CONFERENCE DIRECTOR Katie Kenney Johnson MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Margo G. Buege DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY William E. O'Day The Journal ofLaw, Medicine FJ Ethics is owned and published by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Inc. The views and opinions expressed in the Journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the publisher or the Journal's editorial staff. uestions that arise from the study of bioethics have long filled the pages of the Journal ofLaw, Medicine & Ethics. WCQ Bioethics as a field is multidisciplinary in nature, and is thus a well-suited topic for a journal focused on bringing varied scholarly interests together in the spirit of collaboration. Still, JLME and its individual articles typically examine questions in bioethics from a Western, and often American, perspective. That is fitting, of course, as the Journal is published in the United States for a largely Western audience. In this issue, however, we widen our perspective to an international one as we present the symposium Religions and Cultures of East and West: Perspectives on Bioethics, guest edited by Robert M. Sade. The symposium explores the religions of Chris- tianity, Judaism, and Islam, as well as the religions, value-systems, practices, and cultures of China, Japan, and India, and finds great diversity in the respective cultural approaches to common bioethics questions. In particular, the authors of the individual articles focus on the question of enhancement technology and how advances in medicine and science can improve and prolong human life, but ask at what cost these advances come both for the individual and for each religion and culture. The responses to these technologies are at the center of this symposium and make for very interesting reading. This broad focus is also present in our independent articles. Dayna Matthew, for instance, continues the line of cultural inves- tigation by using social science as a prism to examine the role that race and religion play in informed consent. A team of authors from the National Institutes of Health, meanwhile, examines the educa- tion medical students receive in bioethics, medical law, and related subjects, and finds that the teaching they are given in these critical fields may be lacking. Giles Scofield, finally, questions the methods, means, and even the viability of medical ethics consultation in a thought-provoking article. Our columns further pursue interesting topics, including Mark Rothstein's Currents in Contemporary Ethics, which examines of the value of the proposed Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), and Charity Scott's latest Teaching Health Law col- umn, which focuses on the diverse experiences of adjunct professors at our nation's law schools. Finally, we also present, along with the regular issue, a supplementary issue of JLME, the first National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness' the papers of a Cen- ters for Disease Control and Prevention Summit held in Atlanta in June of 2007. With this much to offer our readers this quarter, we hope we have something here for everyone. Ted Hutchinson Editor ~~TuTT D1 PQp1T TT'TTV AWN TUABT14TC~g * EPBTNC 90 WEST: PERSPECTIVES ON BIOETHICS SPRING 2008 - - - - . .1 __ T T T %T AT tTT rpTT1DI I' 1 A A TT •

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