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Contributions under The Mayday Fund project have been published in three volumes of the Society's Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics: Appropriate Management of Pain, Volume 24, No. 4 (1996), Legal and Regulatory Issues in Pain Management, Volume 26, No. 4 (1998) The Undertreatment of Pain-Legal, Regulatory and Research Perspectives and Solutions, Volume 29, No. 1 (2001) and Improving the Treatment for Pain - Legal, Regulatory amd Research Perspectives, Volume 31, No. 1 (2003).

Introducing Volume 29(1) Sandra Johnson noted:

The scholars involved in the Mayday Projects since 1995 have relentlessly pursued one question: If the importance of pain relief and the ethical obligation to relieve pain are so widely recognized, why do we continue to neglect treatable pain? That single question has led us to investigate medical licensure and discipline (in the 1996 and 1998 special issues of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics); interprofessional matters (in this issue); payment policies and practices (in 1996 and 1998); cultural, racial, and sex and gender differences in treatment (in 1996 and again in this issue); criminal prosecutions for the treatment of pain at the end of life (in 1998); and civil liability (in this issue). This third special issue on pain relief once again presents groundbreaking research, and we believe it will have the strong effect that the first two issues produced. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics has been the major communication tool for these projects, and it has served that role well.

Sandra H. Johnson Introduction: Relieving Unnecessary, Treatable Pain for the Sake of Human Dignity, 29(1) J. LAW, MED. & ETHICS (2001) 11 [PDF]