Public health and safety law

Examines social and political issues that have become resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective.

Examines social and political issues that have become resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective.

This book addresses corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes.

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This book addresses corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes.

Explores the various impacts of measures of EU law on national health law and policy.

Medicolegal Essentials in Healthcare provides an overview of the most clinically relevant medicolegal issues for healthcare groups.

A close study of lawyers who practise occupational safety and health law in the US.

This book summarises the British legislation covering electrical safety, including those regulations derived from European directives.

Consultant and long-time Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food labeling expert James Summers answers the many questions surrounding FDA food labeling regulations and compliance in Food Labeling Compliance Review.

This book has 18 case study chapters investigating various injury scenarios through the use of a Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) analysis.

This book has 18 case study chapters investigating various injury scenarios through the use of a Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) analysis.

Statutory Nuisance and Residential Property: Environmental Health Problems in Housing examines the statutory nuisance provisions in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 pertaining to the condition of premises and related problems in housing and compares these with the provisions of the Housing Act 2004.

Statutory Nuisance and Residential Property: Environmental Health Problems in Housing examines the statutory nuisance provisions in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 pertaining to the condition of premises and related problems in housing and compares these with the provisions of the Housing Act 2004.

What do seat belts, life jackets and anti-jack knife technology have in common?

What do seat belts, life jackets and anti-jack knife technology have in common?

The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety.

The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety.

Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management, and their implications for the profession.

How dangerous is someone's job?

Drawn from research in the manuscript records of the federal judiciary and the court reports of the Florida Supreme Court, this book examines how state and federal judges responded to the enforcement of local, state, and national prohibition in Florida.

What responsibilities, if any, do we have towards our genetic offspring, before or after birth and perhaps even before creation, merely by virtue of the genetic link?

Two leaders in the field of genetics-a bioethicist-health lawyer and an obstetrician-gynecologist geneticist-answer the most pressing questions about the application of new genetics to our universal medicine and what personalized medicine means for individual healthcare.

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world.

Larry Dossey forever changed our understanding of the healing process with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Healing Words.

A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion"e;Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt's legal survey a fascinating resource"e; Kirkus, starred review"e;Professor Witt's book is an original and thoughtful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law.

Two leading physicians'' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.

Public Health Law and Ethics defines these fields for a new generation.

Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys.

In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare.

Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare.

Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves?

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States.

Why is our health care system so fragmented in the care it gives patients?

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

Regulating Obesity?

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Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage?

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries.

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay.

Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States.

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world.

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world.

This is a book for an extraordinary time, about a pandemic for which there is no modern precedent.

This is a book for an extraordinary time, about a pandemic for which there is no modern precedent.

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come.