Medical and healthcare law

Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon.

The validation and radiation sterilization process for biomaterials and medical devices requires careful planning to ensure regulatory compliance followed by precise accuracy in execution and documentation.

Health Rights is a multidisciplinary collection of seminal papers examining ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health or health care.

With more people living longer lives, there is increased importance in the health care industry on improving services for the elderly.

Presents the first comprehensive study of Indigenous perspectives on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and access and benefit sharing in Canada.

Discusses key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety.

This title was first published in 2002.

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture.

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices.

The book explores the changing landscape of anti-doping investigations, which now largely centre on the collection of intelligence about doping through processes such as surveillance, interviews with witnesses and interrogation of athletes.

This guide helps readers understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and medical coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.

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A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

Examines the impact of increased transparency on the legal, medical, and business structures of the American health care system.

The third edition of this award-winning textbook has been revised and thoroughly updated.

Analyzing the level of claims for clinical negligence in the light of the most recent trends and discovering whether there is indeed a litigation crisis in healthcare, this book is a topical and compelling exploration of healthcare and doctor-patient relationships.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.

Examines when and why discrimination based on health status - or ''healthism'' - should be allowed, and when it should not.

Crime perpetrated by healthcare professionals is increasingly pervasive in today's hospitals and other healthcare settings.

Exploring the controversy surrounding therapeutic human cloning, this book draws upon data collected from news articles and interviews with journalists to examine the role of mass media in shaping biomedical controversies.

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning.

Consent is the golden principle that determines the legality of most medical treatment.

This title was first published in 2002.

Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approachesdeveloped outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due tothe commercialisation of cyberspace.

The field of flexible electronics has grown rapidly over the last two decades with diverse applications including wearable gadgets and medical equipment.

This book examines the legal, ethical and regulatory debates surrounding the rise of the cosmetic procedures industry.

Divided into three parts, this edited volume gives an overview of current topics in law and ethics in relation to intellectual property.

Developments in deep learning in the past decade have led to phenomenal growth in AI-based automated medical diagnosis, opening a door to a new era of both medical research and medical industry.

A thoroughly researched, empirically-based explanation of the failures of end-of-life communication & decision-making in the United States.

Whether there is a public health need for the containment and response to swine flu, or an individual need to access health care across the border for a hip operation to alleviate pain, the EU has an increasingly powerful role in the field of human health.

Advances in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have been revolutionary.

Dementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care.

A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient.

How should the law deal with the challenges of advancing biotechnology?

The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their child.

This collection brings together leading international socio-legal and medico-legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice.

When should we try to prevent suicide?

Heather Widdows suggests new ethical frameworks for genetic governance, to replace those that offer little protection and permit significant injustice.

The field of medical imaging seen rapid development over the last two decades and has consequently revolutionized the way in which modern medicine is practiced.

This challenging and highly practical book draws on the findings from an international study designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare organisations in the United States and Europe to achieve - and sustain - high quality services for their users.

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

Modern technology using state-of-the-art equipment can now identify almost any toxin relevant to a legal issue.

This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students.

This fully updated fourth edition of Jon S.

This book provides an understanding of what is required to engineer and manufacture drug products.

We are used to thinking that most people have the capacity to make their own decisions; that they should be free to decide how to live their lives; and that it is a good thing to be self-sufficient.

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) provides a legal framework for acting on behalf of individuals who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves.