Medical and healthcare law

This book explores the scope, application and role of medical law, regulatory norms and ethics, and addresses key challenges introduced by contemporary advances in biomedical research and healthcare.

There exists today a fast growing availability of personal genetic information.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

This book is a detailed reference on biomedical applications using Deep Learning.

Joseph J.

Examines the pharmaceutical industry to expose how higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines.

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime.

A comprehensive review of Hong Kong''s pharmaceutical patent law that will influence debate and inform public policy.

A critical evaluation of the law''s engagement with the process of healthcare decision-making, and how the relationship might be enhanced.

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law?

Can existing legal and ethical norms accommodate biotechnologies which may benefit the recipient but harm the public?

Partnerships between the public and private sectors are an increasingly accepted method to deal with pressing global issues, such as those relating to health.

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.

First published in 2005.

For much of its history, psychoanalysis has been strangely silent about sudden ruptures in the analytic relationship and their immediate and far-reaching effects for those involved.

This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades.

Since publication of the original edition in 1996, this book has established itself as an essential text for occupational therapists.

The book explores and explains the relationship between law and ethics in the context of medically related research in order to provide a practical guide to understanding for members of research ethics committees (RECs), professionals involved with medical research and those with an academic interest in the subject.

This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization.

In this book author Michele P.

A Programing Contingency Analysis of Mental Health presents Dr.

This collection reflects on contemporary and contentious issues in international rulemaking in regards to pharmaceutical patent law.

This book provides a well-focused and comprehensive overview of the history and background of nanocarbon based materials like carbon nanotubes, graphene, and fullerenes.

How can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children's empowerment and protection?

This book provides interdisciplinary analysis of electronic health record systems and medical big data, offering a wealth of technical, legal, and policy insights.

Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook, Second Edition, proposes an international ideal model for the assistive technology assessment process, outlining how this model can be applied in practice to re-conceptualize the phases of an assistive technology delivery system according to the biopsychosocial model of disability.

Building a Better Law Practice: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day will help you be a better lawyer and build a better 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.

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

Mark Taylor demonstrates how research using genetic data can be reconciled with proper privacy protection.

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

Despite their tremendous potential, Mg and its alloys are not yet used in biomedical applications.

Few resources exist for those interested in developing their professional competence vis--vis ethics in forensic psychology, with the most recent text being published more than a decade ago.

Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation.

Used properly jargon can be effective, but used incorrectly it can damage communications, waste time and money, and harm public, patient and staff relations.

School Psychology Ethics in the Workplace introduces a pragmatic and user-friendly model that helps readers become proficient ethical decision-makers using the 2020 National Association of School Psychologists' (NASP) ethical code and to critically engage the ethical standards and work through ethical dilemmas that often occur in school and clinical settings.

A 30-year-old Polish lady is admitted in labour.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Fourteen essays on major theoretical issues in contemporary criminal law and medical law ethics.

Analyzing the concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this timely new book explores a broad selection of disciplines, including criminal and medical law, medical ethics, philosophy and social policy and suggests an alternative solution to the one currently used by the courts, based on grading different categories of killing into a formalized justificatory defence.

Dr Syrett evaluates how courts may contribute to the attainment of legitimacy in healthcare rationing.

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades.

Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care describes the many ways that analysts interact with the medical world and make meaningful contributions to the care of a variety of patients.

Errors and violations harm many patients: this book explores how to improve both accountability and patient safety in healthcare.

Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics.

The aim of this book is not to encourage defensive medical practice, but to help provide better, optimum care to patients and to be forth right and honest to our dear customers about our inevitable mistakes.

Being an 'active citizen' involves exercising social rights and duties, enjoying choice and autonomy, and participating in political decision-making processes which are of importance for one's life.

Recent debates about uses and abuses of the human body in medicine have highlighted the need for a thorough discussion of the ethics of the uses of bodies, both living and dead.