Medical and healthcare law

Focuses on the ethical, legal and social issues raised by genetic testing and therapy.

Documents experiences throughout the entire research process - from conceptualization, ethics approval, field-work, analysis, and publication.

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

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

Mason explores aspects of pregnancy which involve medico-legal intervention, including unwanted or undesired pregnancies.

In this book, first published in 2007, bioethics scholars examine the ethical, legal and social questions raised by human genetic databases.

This book is a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue.

A comprehensive examination of the legal regulation of the provision of healthcare to young children in England and Wales.

Discusses the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning.

This book connects medical liability to broader trends and goals in American health policy.

This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research carried out in developing countries.

Considers problems associated with genetic information in an age of declining welfare provision, and offers direction for future policy.

The right to genetic information is considered here from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, insurers and the state.

A consideration of the ''slippery slope'' objection to voluntary euthanasia, including a review of the Dutch experience.

This book examines the legal, ethical and regulatory debates surrounding the rise of the cosmetic procedures industry.

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health.

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health.

Creative Ways to Learn Ethics is an accessible, easy-to-read guide that compiles a variety of ethics trainings to help professionals stimulate their minds, relieve stress, and increase engagement and memory retention.

Creative Ways to Learn Ethics is an accessible, easy-to-read guide that compiles a variety of ethics trainings to help professionals stimulate their minds, relieve stress, and increase engagement and memory retention.

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders.

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders.

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?

First published in 1999, The book examines the magnitude of the polemic surrounding each attempt to reformulate the insanity defence in the United States, England and Ireland.

First published in 1999, The book examines the magnitude of the polemic surrounding each attempt to reformulate the insanity defence in the United States, England and Ireland.

Educational Planning of Court-Involved Youth provides a framework for alleviating chronic barriers for youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

Educational Planning of Court-Involved Youth provides a framework for alleviating chronic barriers for youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

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

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

First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses.

First published in 1998, Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses.

This book is inspired by a statement released by the World Health Organization directed at preventing and eliminating disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility-based childbirth.

This book is inspired by a statement released by the World Health Organization directed at preventing and eliminating disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility-based childbirth.

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience and comprehension - fast.

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience and comprehension - fast.

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation.

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation.

First published in 1998, this unique, timely book applies sociological concepts and analysis to the study of organ transplantation and related medical phenomena.

First published in 1998, this unique, timely book applies sociological concepts and analysis to the study of organ transplantation and related medical phenomena.

Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA-5), Third Edition maintains the tradition of the prior two editions, following the Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA) model.

Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA-5), Third Edition maintains the tradition of the prior two editions, following the Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA) model.

Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approachesdeveloped outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due tothe commercialisation of cyberspace.

Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approachesdeveloped outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due tothe commercialisation of cyberspace.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

Based on the IOM's estimate of 44,000 deaths annually, medical errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.

Based on the IOM's estimate of 44,000 deaths annually, medical errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.

This book was originally published in 1999.

This book was originally published in 1999.