The American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME) is a non-profit educational and

professional organization A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) usually seeks to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals and organisations engaged in that profession, and the ...

. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, it is multidisciplinary in nature with members drawn from both the legal and medical professions. The society conducts research projects and conferences and publishes two journals, ''

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics ''The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic medical journal covering medical ethics and medical law. It was established in 1981 as ''Law, Medicine & Health Care'', which itself was formed by the merger of two j ...

'' and ''

American Journal of Law & Medicine The ''American Journal of Law & Medicine'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering health law. It was established in 1975 and is published by Sage Publications till December 2020, in association with both Boston University School of ...

''. The society's roots go back to 1911 with the founding of the Massachusetts Society of Examining Physicians. For 70 years it was the only statewide organization in Massachusetts with programs that combined both medical and legal issues. In 1968 attorneys were admitted as non-voting members. The American Society of Law and Medicine was incorporated as its successor in 1972 with Elliot L. Sagall as its president. Sagall was a cardiologist who also co-taught a course with

George Annas George J. Annas is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Law. Biography Annas h ...

on law and medicine at

Boston College Law School Boston College Law School (BC Law) is the law school of Boston College. It is situated on a wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles from the university's main campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. With approximately 800 studen ...

. In 1992 the society was renamed American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Past presidents of the society include the legal scholars Mary Anne Bobinski and Kathleen Boozang and the physicians John Lantos and

Ronald Cranford Ronald Eugene Cranford (1941 – May 31, 2006) was a neurologist and expert on comas and unconsciousness. He is best known for his work with families on public cases involving persons in a persistent vegetative state. He and three other docto ...

Research and education projects

*The Mayday Pain Project, begun in 1995 and funded by the Mayday Fund, focuses on the legal constraints on access to effective pain relief *The DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties Project, initiated in 2003 with funding from the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

, focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of

DNA fingerprinting DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting) is the process of determining an individual's DNA characteristics. DNA analysis intended to identify a species, rather than an individual, is called DNA barcoding. DNA profiling is a forensic tec ...

and data banksMoulton, Benjamin W. (Summer 2006)
"DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties"
''The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics'', Volume 34, Issue 2, pp. 147–148

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* {{authority control Medical associations based in the United States Non-profit organizations based in Boston Organizations established in 1911 Medical and health organizations based in Massachusetts 1911 establishments in Massachusetts