Medical and healthcare law

This leading textbook places medical decision-making in its legal context and provides practical guidance on the most ethically challenging cases that face the courts.

The growing globalization of medical research and the application of new biotechnologies in morally contested areas has forced a revision of international ethical guidelines.

Das Buch thematisiert die vielfältigen Rechtsfragen, welche die individualisierte Medizin in der Gesundheitsversorgung sowie in der medizinischen Praxis aufwirft.

Based on the author's more than 35 years of experience as a successful expert witness, this revised and expanded edition of Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: A Guidebook demonstrates how to properly present scientific, criminal, and forensic testimony and survive the onslaught of cross-examination in court.

Communication problems between science and the courts are widely deplored and sometimes exploited by a variety of groups.

Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects and is one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect.

Food products with genetically modified (GM) ingredients are common, yet many consumers are unaware of this.

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

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.

Pandemics such as Covid-19, Ebola, SARS, and influenza, as well as the necessary measures for their research, prevention, and treatment, raise a number of ethical issues that confront science, the medical profession, and health policy.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This edited book focuses on the role and use of emerging technologies within the healthcare sector.

Increasingly, therapy practitioners and researchers position themselves within a pluralistic perspective that draws on the value of multiple sources of knowledge.

The Behavioral Science of Firearms focuses on applying behavioral science principles and knowledge to inform and improve firearm-related policy, practice, and research.

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

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination.

Die Abgabe einer Praxis ist für den Arzt, Zahnarzt oder Tierarzt ein wesentlicher Lebenseinschnitt, der sorgfältig bedacht und geplant sein will.

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

What responsibilities, if any, do we have towards our genetic offspring, before or after birth and perhaps even before creation, merely by virtue of the genetic link?

Die Darstellung behandelt praxisorientiert alle relevanten Fragen zum ärztlichen Werberecht unter Berücksichtigung von Berufsrecht, UWG, HWG, MarkenG, GWB und Europarecht.

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

Wenn Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte keine anerkannten oder fraglichen Leistungen der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen sind, prüft der Medizinische Dienst, ob deren Anwendung im Einzelfall dennoch aus medizinisch-wissenschaftlicher Sicht empfohlen werden kann.

Hein and Moon take up a serious problem of contemporary global governance: what can be done when international trade rules prevent the realization of basic human rights?

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

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge.

This book offers an impressive collection of contributions on the epistemology of international biolaw and its applications, both in the legal and ethical fields.

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years.

The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying.

CLINICAL RESEARCH AND THE LAW The legal implications of conducting clinical research and trials are becoming more complex.

A Casebook of Mental Capacity in US Legislation: Assessment and Legal Commentary employs an applied and accessible approach to the assessment of mental capacity.

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.

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

Ärztliche Wahlleistungen werden durch den Chefarzt erbracht, der im Falle des direkten Liquidationsrechts selbst in vertragliche Beziehungen zum Patienten tritt.

An invaluable quick-reference source for practitioners and professionals detailing the major concerns in forensic psychology.

Injuries involving the spine are the most common compensation claims in the United States.

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

An anesthesiologist chips a patient's tooth during a difficult intubation.

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

Transforming Residential Interventions: Practical Strategies and Future Directions captures the emerging changes, exciting innovations, and creative policies and practices informing ground-breaking residential programs.

Point of care (POC) diagnostic devices are predominantly used for the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases.

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches.

A detailed analysis of the ethical, legal, and regulatory landscape of medical devices in the US and EU.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries.

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.

Der Bundestag hat im Jahr 1998 das Transfusionsgesetz beschlossen.

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.