Medical and healthcare law

The definitive reference guide to designing scientifically sound and ethically robust medical research, considering legal, ethical and practical issues.

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.

A unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives on debates surrounding biotechnology patents or ''patents on life''.

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

This updated paperback edition contains all the very latest on the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

A practical guide to reform of the regulatory environment for access to government held data for research.

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

Explains the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.

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

An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.

Ameringer explains the development and current state of America''s overspecialized, uncoordinated, and fragmented healthcare industry.

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

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to ''one-size-fits-all'' treatment.

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

The definitive reference guide to designing scientifically sound and ethically robust medical research, considering legal, ethical and practical issues.

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

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

This theoretical and practical guide to Mental Capacity Statute considers recent case law, medico-legal challenges and future legislation.

This theoretical and practical guide to Mental Capacity Statute considers recent case law, medico-legal challenges and future legislation.

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

Ameringer explains the development and current state of America''s overspecialized, uncoordinated, and fragmented healthcare industry.

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

A collection of studies in bioethics and society that goes beyond conventional medical ethics and suggests political, socio-legal, and empirical analysis.

This book reveals the surprising impact of medicine stamp duty (1783–1941) on pharmaceutical practice and the interface of law and government.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice.

With genetic technologies advancing rapidly, Aisling de Paor examines the urgent need for an EU-level framework to regulate genetic information.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

With genetic technologies advancing rapidly, Aisling de Paor examines the urgent need for an EU-level framework to regulate genetic information.

This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice.

Tells the human story of the litigants involved in landmark legal cases that changed how mental health treatment is practiced.

Tells the human story of the litigants involved in landmark legal cases that changed how mental health treatment is practiced.

An interdisciplinary in-depth analysis of the ethical issues raised by using animals in research and the related regulatory issues.

An interdisciplinary in-depth analysis of the ethical issues raised by using animals in research and the related regulatory issues.

The first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, analysing the interaction between different legal systems and sources.

This book collects fifteen new case studies documenting successful knowledge and information sharing commons institutions for medical and health sciences innovation.

Duties to Care is the first empirically grounded, conceptually nuanced, socio-legal examination of caring for a person with dementia.

This book collects fifteen new case studies documenting successful knowledge and information sharing commons institutions for medical and health sciences innovation.

Duties to Care is the first empirically grounded, conceptually nuanced, socio-legal examination of caring for a person with dementia.

Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law.