Medical and healthcare law

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

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

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

Analyses the highly controversial problems of DNA forensic technologies, providing important insights into their ethical, legal and societal dimensions.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

This book examines global health problems through the lens of public and international law, focusing on access to essential medicines.

A comprehensive discussion of a number of current and emerging governance issues in EU health policy.

This book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings.

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

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

Matti Häyry asks if we should make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances allow it.

This book addresses the response of law and quasi-legal bodies to human service failures.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

An examination of legal measures which might be used to solve the problem of fragmentation of patents in genetics.

This book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial proceedings.

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

This book provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

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.