Medical and healthcare law

This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research carried out in developing countries.

Almost all pathologists face legal issues when dealing with the specimens they work with on a day-to-day basis, whether it involves quality control and assurance in handling the specimens, facing the possibility of malpractice suits, or serving as an expert witness in a trial.

Many books have been published about physician-assisted death.

The move to manage medicine from a financial perspective, i.

Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

Locknie Hsu explores the economic and public health issues that impact upon access to medicines in Asian states.

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years.

The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care offers a multicultural and international perspective on how art therapy can be of help to individuals, groups, families, communities, and nations facing death and dying as well as grief and loss.

Many forensic pathologists and death investigators would agree that infant deaths have historically been poorly investigated.

When the Affordable Care Act was just beginning to be implemented in 2013, the HHS secretary released a report stating the goal of Affordable Healthcare Act is to increase competition and transparency in the markets for individuals and small group insurance leading to higher quality, more affordable products.

First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses.

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa.

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems.

John Marks is something of a national treasure.

This book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime.

The definitive reference guide to designing scientifically sound and ethically robust medical research, considering legal, ethical and practical issues.

Increased scrutiny on the part of the general public, media, and government has warranted a reexamination of corporate responsibilities, standards of accountability, the company's role in its local and extended community, and its ethical position in our society and culture.

This book covers the principle, structure, enhancement of sensitivity and resolution power of photothermal and Raman microscopies.

This book delineates the scope of permissible compulsory mental health interventions under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The process of matching a person who has a disability with the most appropriate assistive technology requires a series of assessments, typically administered by multidisciplinary teams at specialized centers for technical aid.

3D bioprinting is an emerging innovative technology that involves the fabrication of essential 3D functional biomedical constructs by combining cells and biomaterials with vital growth and differentiation factors.

Following the boom in population databases in recent years there has been sustained and intense international debate about political processes and legal and ethical issues surrounding the protection and use of genetic data.

This volume informs physical therapists, occupational therapists, and rehabilitation technologists about the devices that are available today and provides important background information on these devices.

This new addition to Hart Publishing's Landmark Cases series brings together leading figures in the field to discuss a selection of the most significant cases in medical law.

This leading textbook places medical decision-making in its legal context and provides practical guidance on the most ethically challenging cases that face the courts.

The globalisation of research has resulted in the increased location of research involving humans in developing countries.

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before.

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years.

Statistics and evidence-based medicine are assessed in most postgraduate and undergraduate medical examinations and degrees in health sciences.

CLINICAL RESEARCH AND THE LAW The legal implications of conducting clinical research and trials are becoming more complex.

Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others.

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?

Law touches more and more upon the daily practice of medical professionals.

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before.

Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary perspectives for positive policy outcomes.

This volume draws together essays from leading scholars on the challenges that arise for health, law, policy and ethics at the intersections of health, rights and globalization.

This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between health and social care.

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland.

This title was first published in 2002.

Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship.

Incarceration severely affects the health and wellbeing of women both during their incarceration and following release, further complicating the health disparities they already experience as a consequence of gender, race and social class.

Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life.

It has been claimed by fertility experts that embryos can be screened for 6,000 diseases, thereby the risk of x-linked diseases can be minimised by 'cherry-picking' male embryos that do not carry the abnormal gene.

Examines emerging assisted reproductive technologies that will revolutionise the future of human reproduction and their regulation.

A practical guide to reform of the regulatory environment for access to government held data for research.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.