Medical and healthcare law

This collection of essays emphasizes society's increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology.

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

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

Genetics and Gene Therapy shows the wide range of the debate and the very real significance that genetics and its associated developments have for human beings, individually and collectively.

Culture, Context and Quality in Health Sciences Research, Education, Leadership and Patient Care (Second book in a series of five) Sustainably Improving Health Care promotes the importance of integrating improved care outcomes, system performance, and professional development so that the future of health-care advancement is creative and sustainable.

The third edition of this award-winning textbook has been revised and thoroughly updated.

This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves.

The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.

As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system.

A homicide committed by a mentally disordered person who is under the care of health service professionals is a shocking event.

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

A concise and accessible overview of the design, implementation and management of medical software.

Health professionals are often confronted with situations that demand change, including a community's inability to access adequate health care, lack of disease-specific prevention programs, or legislators who do not understand economic and noneconomic impacts of a particular disease or prevention.

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

Hospital service areas (HSAs) and hospital referral regions (HRRs) are considered more appropriate units than geopolitical units for analyzing the performance of health care markets and policy implementation.

Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law.

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London.

Examines the law governing consent to medical treatment for trans youth in Australia, England and Wales.

Examines the ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges presented as genomics become commonplace, easily available consumer products.

Written by two therapists with extensive business experience, Mastering the Financial Dimension of Your Psychotherapy Practice addresses the clinical and financial challenges of establishing and maintaining a successful private practice.

The Psychology of Death Investigations outlines definitively how behavioral evidence can often provide the necessary components and "e;missing pieces"e; to complement physical evidence as an essential tool for incident reconstruction.

"e;Changing Clinical Care"e; adopts a fresh, nursing and patient-centred approach to systemisation to aid patients and their carers.

Telemedicine has recently become a key focus of healthcare systems globally, heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased need for remote care pathways.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

A major revision of the landmark book on expert testimony Feder's Succeeding as an Expert Witness, Successful Expert Testimony, Fifth Edition highlights the book's value to both attorneys and expert witnesses in promoting effective, impactful courtroom testimony.

By way of introduction to this fascinating book, let me highlight two of its many contributions.

Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland provides a guide to the general principles of legislation in relation to adult protection.

This book examines the relationship between law and scientific advancement, with a particular focus on the theory of evolution and medical innovation.

This book offers an accurate and updated approach to the main contributions of cosmopolitan biolaw in relation to sustainability, global governance, organizational health care economics and COVID-19.

In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs.

Brings together different disciplinary perspectives and new empirical insights to explore the regulation of assisted reproduction around the world.

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Drawing on the expertise of several well-known figures in the medical, neuropsychological, and legal professions, Forensic Evaluation of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Handbook for Clinicians and Attorneys, Second Edition provides a concise, general overview of the forensic assessment process and the issues surrounding Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

This book explores the legal and ethical implications - both challenges and opportunities - of using big data in health care and research.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

This book provides a theory-to-practice breakdown of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and what its implications are for health and social care workers.

Working with Autistic People in the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health Systems: A Handbook for Practitioners is the first book to focus specifically on best practice for working with autistic people in criminal justice and forensic mental health settings.

This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex - people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain.

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer).

This timely volume provides a comprehensive examination of how the proposed new European Health Data Space (EHDS) legislation will impact upon health and genetic data, individual privacy and providers of health services.

This book is a concise introduction to the fundamental issues and debates in health care ethics.

Consent is the golden principle that determines the legality of most medical treatment.

Drawing on Sir Ian Kennedy's extensive experience in healthcare law, ethics and public policy-making, this book explores vital issues in the law surrounding healthcare and regulation.

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth.

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.