Medical and healthcare law

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

The papers in this collection are drawn from a symposium held in Vienna in December 2010.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of philosophical, social, ethical, and legal challenges arising as a consequences of current advances in neurosciences and neurotechnology.

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival's professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography.

A standard reference work for all who prepare, order, appraise, or evaluate reports on the consequences of accidents.

The book presents the latest advances in soft electronics in biomedical engineering and its potential applications in various biomedical fields.

This book argues that legal theory provides a jumping-off point for the study of controversial topics related to the work of Practicing Healthcare Ethicists (PHEs).

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

This book provides an overview of the US laws that affect clinical practice for healthcare professionals with no legal background.

This book proposes an ethical and legal framework to improve the responses to social issues related not only to the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but also to future pandemics.

This book introduces "e;biolaw"e; as an integrated and distinct field in contemporary legal studies.

This book addresses the fundamental conflict of interest that physicians face in their daily work lives between the ethics of proper medical care versus the demands of standard business practices.

The coronavirus pandemic struck unexpectedly, posing unprecedented challenges around the world.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of philosophical, social, ethical, and legal challenges arising as a consequences of current advances in neurosciences and neurotechnology.

This book provides a robust analysis of the history of clinical ethics, the philosophical theories that support its practice, and the practical institutional criteria needed to become a practicing clinical ethicist.

This book draws a unique perspective on the regulation of access to clinical trial data as a case on research and knowledge externalities.

In this interdisciplinary book, experts from philosophy, medicine, law, psychology, economics, and social sciences address questions and develop solutions for a well-designed society of long life.

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival's professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

This book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective values and medical-scientific evidence when they have to be interpreted by judges, courts and para-jurisdictional bodies.

This book configures a consistent epistemology of biolaw that distinguishes itself from bioethics and from a mere set of international instruments on the regulation of biomedical practices.

The book discusses compensation mechanisms and other non-judicial means that offer alternatives to court proceedings, designed and provided for within national legal regimes.

This text, edited by experienced academic and private otolaryngologists at different points in their careers, as well as an attorney, reviews the current literature related to otolaryngology malpractice litigation, and discusses strategies to decrease liability and enhance patient safety.

In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.

This book examines the relationship between law and scientific advancement, with a particular focus on the theory of evolution and medical innovation.

This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions.

Practitioners are increasingly adopting a personalised medicine approach to individually tailored patient care, especially disease diagnosis and treatment with the use of biomarkers.

This book is a companion to Clinical Ethics on Film and deals specifically with the myriad of healthcare ethics dilemmas.

This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it.

This book examines the often tough questions raised by infectious diseases through essays that explore a host of legal and ethical issues.

This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice.

This concise volume guides public health advocates on how to successfully advocate for their cause, strengthen their messaging and communication strategies, build coalitions, and gather political allies.

This book prepares the mental health professional to use scientific skills when working within a legal framework.

This book covers topical subjects within the field of death investigation, where changes in practice have recently occurred.

The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society.

This book offers a first rate selection of academic articles on Latin American bioethics.

This book gathers scientific contributions on comprehensive approaches to personalized medicine.

This book offers an impressive collection of contributions on the epistemology of international biolaw and its applications, both in the legal and ethical fields.

This book offers a new perspective on advance directives through a combined legal, ethical and philosophical inquiry.

This book prepares the mental health professional to use scientific skills when working within a legal framework.

Questions ethiques autour de la mort provoquee.

This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it.

This book analyses and reconstructs the European Convention on Human Rights standard of application and execution of preventive deprivation of liberty.