Medical and healthcare law

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all.

This is the first book published that focuses on competition law and policy in the Japanese pharmaceutical sector.

This book is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyze emerging developments, issues, and perspectives in the field of comparative law, especially in the field of comparative constitutional law.

The book discusses compensation mechanisms and other non-judicial means that offer alternatives to court proceedings, designed and provided for within national legal regimes.

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.

Pharmacy Law and Practice, Fifth Edition provides a straightforward and useable guide for students, practitioners, academics and others interested in pharmacy law and practice in the United Kingdom.

More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide.

This book aims to analyse the legal tools that the legislatures of France, Germany and Italy adopted in order to regulate medical malpractice.

Evidence-based guidance on the prevention and management of aggression and violence by patients with mental disorders.

This book explores the social, ethical and legal implications of assisted reproductive technologies (ART).

This book discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity assessments in the context of wills, enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives.

This book offers a novel study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on insurance from an international and comparative perspective.

The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society.

Providing scientifically accurate, detailed, and accessible information to students and general readers, this book presents the history of vaccination; describes the administration, manufacturing, and regulation of vaccines in the United States; and explains the most recent scientific findings about vaccination while addressing concerns of those who oppose immunization.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

The book deals with the effective operation of the rules related to biomedical research and pays attention to the activities of the national legislatures of the 27 Member States in the field of scientific research.

The book deals with the effective operation of the rules related to biomedical research and pays attention to the activities of the national legislatures of the 27 Member States in the field of scientific research.

An inside look at the culture of surveillance that pits healthcare providers against their patientsDoctors and pharmacists make critical decisions every day about whether to dispense opioids that alleviate pain but fuel addiction.

This book considers how vulnerability theory provides the basis for a reconceptualization of the liberal ideas of autonomy, equality, and freedom.

Interpretando a diferentes autores y enfocándolos en el concepto de medicina asertiva — propuesta que se hace para combatir la medicina defensiva— en un esfuerzo de síntesis, se trata de mantener ante los pacientes un comportamiento asertivo, considerando que el mensaje básico de la aserción es: "esto es lo que yo pienso; esto es lo que yo siento; así es como yo veo la situación", sin afectar o degradar la otredad, en actitud siempre conciliadora y abierta a la negociación.

This book examines the position of children who provide tissue to potentially save the life of another.

This book considers the intellectual property protection of clinical test data that has been submitted to governments, in particular through test data exclusivity rights.

The complexities and contradictions of the fertility industry through a reproductive justice lens.

This practical guide transforms complex therapeutic codes of ethics from organizations like AAMFT and APA into accessible, everyday guidance for navigating ethically challenging cases in clinical practice.

Doctors and Their Crimes is a compelling and meticulously researched exploration of doctors who commit criminal acts.

Doctors and Their Crimes is a compelling and meticulously researched exploration of doctors who commit criminal acts.

This practical guide transforms complex therapeutic codes of ethics from organizations like AAMFT and APA into accessible, everyday guidance for navigating ethically challenging cases in clinical practice.

Over 30,000 research articles have been retracted from peer-reviewed journals in recent years, exposing a troubling crisis in research integrity.

Over 30,000 research articles have been retracted from peer-reviewed journals in recent years, exposing a troubling crisis in research integrity.

Broaching Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in the Counseling Process identifies practical strategies and tools that help mental health providers facilitate discussions with their clients about the extent to which issues related to race, ethnicity, and culture impact their presenting concerns.

This book reviews the evolution, development, and application of medicinal compounds, beginning with their historical context and advancing to modern innovations.

Broaching Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in the Counseling Process identifies practical strategies and tools that help mental health providers facilitate discussions with their clients about the extent to which issues related to race, ethnicity, and culture impact their presenting concerns.

This book reviews the evolution, development, and application of medicinal compounds, beginning with their historical context and advancing to modern innovations.