Medical and healthcare law

Composites in Biomedical Applications presents a comprehensive overview on recent developments in composites and their use in biomedical applications.

Recent debates about uses and abuses of the human body in medicine have highlighted the need for a thorough discussion of the ethics of the uses of bodies, both living and dead.

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

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment.

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body.

This theoretical and practical guide to Mental Capacity Statute considers recent case law, medico-legal challenges and future legislation.

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.

Most clinicians seek guidelines and indicators as to the effectiveness of their interventions with clients.

This book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of Medicare under the Affordable Care Act.

Internet of Things (IoT) has become a valuable tool for connection and information exchange between devices.

This book delves into medico-legal history, travelling back in time to explore English law's fascinating and often acrimonious relationship with healing and healers.

Examines the theoretical and practical implications of using criminal law as a tool for protecting public health.

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.

Now that prohibitions against stem cell research are relaxing, it is time for the field to move forward with the advances that promise to eliminate so much human suffering.

To maximise the effectiveness of their work, NHS employees need a clear understanding of the structures and systems of the organisation in which they work.

Social Work and the Courts is a collection of important and cutting-edge court decisions in the field of human services, now in its third edition.

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.

'Caring and the Law' considers the law's response to caring.

This book delves into medico-legal history, travelling back in time to explore English law's fascinating and often acrimonious relationship with healing and healers.

Tells the human story of the litigants involved in landmark legal cases that changed how mental health treatment is practiced.

The field of flexible electronics has grown rapidly over the last two decades with diverse applications including wearable gadgets and medical equipment.

Sexuality, Disability, and the Law approaches issues of sexual autonomy and disability from multiple perspectives, including constitutional law, international human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, history, cognitive psychology, dignity studies, and theories and findings on gender constructs and societal norms.

ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization.

Explores the diversity of partnerships at the interface of intellectual property and sustainable development.

The Daubert trilogy of U.

Thirty years ago, English jurist Patrick Devlin wrote: "e;Is it not a pleasant tribute to the medical profession that by and large it has been able to manage its relations with its patients .

Recent toxicological studies show that nanoparticles released in technological processes and combustion processes outside industry can be dangerous for humans especially when entering the body through the mouth and nose.

Ethics in Rural Psychology provides readers with theoretical underpinnings, practical applications, and empirically based knowledge of the practice of psychology in rural communities.

Psychopaths constitute less than 1% of the general population but over 20% of prison populations.

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technology: Principles and Applications consists of the construction and working details of all modern additive manufacturing and 3D-printing technology processes and machines, while also including the fundamentals, for a well-rounded educational experience.

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.

The right to bodily integrity has become a notable controversial issue within moral, political and legal discourse and this right is regarded as one of the most precious rights that persons have, alongside the right to life.

Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born.

This book covers new and exciting topics which have emerged in the area of autopsy recently, including the three different post-mortem CT-angiography systems currently available to practitioners in this field; a highly topical chapter on the role of genetic abnormalities in the handling of drugs within the body and how this can affect the interpretation of toxicological results in relation to how the drug may have caused or contributed to death; an update on the current classification and considerations related to deaths due to hanging; a review of injuries and fatalities caused by animals including post-mortem scavenging; an authoritative review of poisons and toxins from water and the life that inhabits it; and recent advances in knowledge in the use of entomology as an investigative tool as well as knowledge related to colonisation of cadavers by insects, animals and birds.

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation.

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to ''one-size-fits-all'' treatment.

Most clinicians seek guidelines and indicators as to the effectiveness of their interventions with clients.

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

Reflective Learning is the essential reference for health and safety practitioners wanting to develop their professional skills and practice.

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary.

Why is TALOIA bandied about in clinics and on wards?

All neuropsychologists need to know how to produce evidence-based reports.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

Managed care organizations are paving the way to the future of health care delivery in the United States and countries around the world.

This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions.

This concise, introductory handbook discusses the basic principles of medical ethics, and includes practical, realistic guidance on how to evaluate and manage common ethical problems, focusing on the care of elderly patients Typical scenarios faced in clinical practice, such as issues of mental capacity and consent, resuscitation, near death decisions, quality of life, and health care expenditure, are discussed