Medical and healthcare law

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

Biobanks are critical infrastructure for medical research but they are also the subject of considerable ethical and legal uncertainty.

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with a view to contributing to the development of a human rights framework that can guide States in enacting and implementing intellectual property law and policy.

There have been extraordinary developments in the field of neuroscience in recent years, sparking a number of discussions within the legal field.

TASER(R) Conducted Electrical Weapons are rapidly replacing the club for law-enforcement control of violent subjects within many countries around the globe.

How the European Union could and should regulate lifestyle risks of non-communicable diseases through regulation of individual choices.

This book marks the retirement of Professor Sheila McLean, whose contribution to the discipline of medical law has been truly ground breaking.

Drawing on the expertise of multi-degreed doctors, and multi-certified financial advisors, Comprehensive Financial Planning Strategies for Doctors and Advisors: Best Practices from Leading Consultants and Certified Medical Planners will shape the industry landscape for the next generation as the current ecosystem strives to keep pace.

The issue of justice in the field of health care is becoming more central with concerns over access, cost and provision.

The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international public health to provide prompt and specific guidance during a large-scale emergency.

This unique Irish law book is a core text for any student of medicine, dentistry, radiography, physiotherapy, psychiatry or nursing, as well as legal practitioners advising clients in this area.

Argues that European human rights law must acknowledge that autonomy is dependent on the existence of trusting and caring relationships.

In addition to coordinating health travel logistics and gathering medical records, medical tourism facilitators play the role of travel agent, appointment setter, concierge, hotel reservationist, tour operator, and hand-holder to clients seeking health services domestically and abroad.

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Unraveled provides the definitive account of the battle to stop Obamacare from being ''woven into the fabric of America''.

Introduction and investigation of the concept – and utility – of legacy in the field of medical jurisprudence.

This book is a practical guide for individuals responsible for creating products that are safe, effective, usable, and satisfying in the hands of the intended users.

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The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national governments.

This book provides answers to the questions that biomedical and biotechnological research has posed to our societies by proposing the introduction of biorights.

Head, Eye, and Face Personal Protective Equipment: New Trends, Practice, and Applications presents protective equipment in the context of the latest design trends, materials, and technologies.

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.

Life care planning is an advanced collaborative case management specialty practice focused on assessing, evaluating, coordinating, consulting, planning for, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with complex medical care needs over their lifetime.

This groundbreaking volume of original essays presents fresh avenues of inquiry at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry.

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on medical law and ethics, primarily designed to allow students to 'get under the skin' of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills.

Developing a forensic practice can be confusing and intimidating.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

Biobanks are proliferating rapidly worldwide because they are powerful tools and organisational structures for undertaking medical research.

Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries' political and health service agendas.

Dementia is a topic of enormous human, medical, economic, legal and ethical importance.

Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.

Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society.

Forensic psychiatry (the interface of psychiatry and the law), forensic psychology, and mental health law are growing and evolving subspecialties in their respective larger disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law addresses some of the most critical issues facing scholars, legislators, and judges today: how to protect against threats to public health that can quickly cross national borders, how to ensure access to affordable health care, and how to regulate the pharmaceutical industry, among many others.

There has been a rapid increase in the pace and scope of international collaborative research in developing countries in recent years.

A collection of first-person case studies that detail serious ethical problems in medical practice and research.

This book considers how largely accepted 'legal truths' about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering.

Addresses an Emerging Shift in Developing CountriesThe authors and contributors of Ambient Assisted Living have recognized that the demographic profile is changing in many developing countries and have factored in an inversion of the demographic pyramid.

Over the course of an African American's lifetime, mental health care needs change according to an individual's unique interactions with his or her environment.

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities.

Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness.

In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room.

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The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts.

The Dutch experience has influenced the debate on euthanasia and death with dignity around the globe, especially with regard to whether physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legitimized or legalized.

Both developing and developed countries face an increasing mismatch between what patients expect to receive from healthcare and what the public healthcare systems can afford to provide.

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The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990.