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A global theme issue: bibliography of references.

In August 1996, the International Health Law Committee, International Law and Practice Section, American Bar Association, sponsored a program entitled “Law and Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases” to examine how the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases affects international and U.S. federal, state, and local law. The issues addressed included international legal rules on in...

Impact of new technologies in medicine: a global theme issue.

TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, EVEN WHEN IT IS REAL progress, often leads to new problems, difficult choices, and unforeseen dilemmas. The balancing of potential benefits and risks that is part of even routine medical practice is highlighted by the impact of new technologies in medicine. With this fundamental tension as a likely stimulus, the editors of 89 medical journals from around the world voted ...

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Global theme issue on poverty and human development.

Poverty, infectious diseases, and human development have been, and continue to be, closely intertwined. Therefore, The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID) is pleased to join a worldwide effort organized by the Council of Science Editors to put special emphasis on global poverty and human development during the month of October 2007. A special supplement to JID is being published this month, on...

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