Medical and healthcare law

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment.

Supplementing the best-selling textbook, Ethics for Behavior Analysts, this book analyzes over 50 original and up-to-date ethics cases recently faced by behavior analysts.

While the investigations and reports which have followed recent health care scandals in the UK have highlighted the very important issue of addressing organizational culture and the need for more effective leadership at every level, patients and their families have struggled to comprehend how such things can occur in a health service that is suppos

Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories.

Written by two therapists with extensive business experience, Mastering the Financial Dimension of Your Psychotherapy Practice addresses the clinical and financial challenges of establishing and maintaining a successful private practice.

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victimsIn Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears.

Does the state still frame debates about new technology?

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

This volume contributes to the growing debate surrounding the impact that the rising powers may or may not be having on contemporary global political and economic governance.

This book presents an important reflection on the concept and limits of the Fundamental Right to Health as opposed to a supposed "e;Right to Hope"e; in the context of the treatment of patients with advanced cancer.

Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment and offers proposals for reform.

Topical and compelling, this volume provides an excellent re-evaluation of the 'best interests' test in the healthcare arena; the ways in which it has developed, the inherent difficulties in its use and its interpretation in legal cases concerning the medical care of children.

The question "e;what is science"e; has been one of the most vigorously contested legal questions as to what is legally acceptable scientific foundation for the submission of expert opinion in a wide variety of cases, especially in products liability cases.

A series of recent high-profile court cases has demonstrated the inadequacy of current laws in addressing issues relating to medical treatment decisions involving seriously ill children.

When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions.

This book delves into risks that can easily bedevil any psychotherapist and what can happen if they are ignored.

Seit 1997 liegt das "Menschenrechtsübereinkommen zur Biomedizin" des Europarates vor, das inzwischen von 11 Mitgliedstaaten des Europarates ratifiziert wurde.

Die Beiträge dieser Festschrift zeigen eindrucksvoll das breit gefächerte Spektrum des Faches Rechtsmedizin auf.

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.

In dem Buch werden Grundsatzfragen und aktuelle Brennpunkte des Medizinrechts aus europäisch-deutscher und (als "postsozialistisches" Rechtssystem im Umbruch) aus ukrainischer Sicht kontrastiert.

This book offers a critical analysis of some of the guiding principles and assumptions that have been central to the development and identity of medical law.

With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world.

Increasing numbers of people have connections with one country, but live and work in another, frequently owning property or investments in several countries.

This reference text discusses integrated approaches to improve the objectives of additive manufacturing in medical application.

Offering the first comprehensive theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth, The Harm Paradox provides readers with an insightful critique into the concepts of choice, responsibility and personhood.

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

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is the most widely used and accepted scheme for diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and beyond.

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.

Drawing on a wide range of primary historical and sociological sources and employing sharp philosophical analysis, this book investigates medical ethics from a Chinese-Western comparative perspective.

Immer mehr Jugendliche und Kinder greifen zur Zigarette.

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.

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

Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans as intimate and farreaching as any over a lifetime.

This highly regarded book is a comprehensive and up to date guide to mental health law in Scotland.

This book examines the regulatory framework for untested and unapproved uses (off-label uses) of medicines in the EU, UK, and USA.

Often associated with artificial hearts, ventricular assist devices (VADs) are blood pumps that can provide circulatory assistance to the left ventricle, the right ventricle, or both.

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.

Commodification of the human body is gaining ground, strengthened by powerful interests.

Weigh pivotal healthcare ethics, law, and public policy issues that resulted in tipping-point legal actionsWeighing the ethical considerations in healthcare and drug issues can be emotionally difficult and mentally challenging.

Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one''s life in order to escape devastating terminal illness.

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technology: Principles and Applications consists of the construction and working details of all modern additive manufacturing and 3D-printing technology processes and machines, while also including the fundamentals, for a well-rounded educational experience.

On July 1, 2003, work-hour reforms were enacted nationally for the roughly 129,000 resident physicians in the United States.

This book addresses advancement in nanomaterials to design and develop non-invasive healthcare sensors including a combination of hybrid nanocomposites to design non-invasive devices for diagnosing human diseases.