Medicolegal issues

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings.

Looking at the current turmoil facing contemporary healthcare systems worldwide, resulting from relentless imposition of financially-based performance indicators, the author argues that a return to a values-based approach to healthcare will create positive transformation.

The United States is engaged in a critically important and contentious debate on how to overhaul the way it delivers and pays for long-term care.

An understanding of medical law is increasingly important for all health professionals and this new ABC provides a basic introduction to the legal issues faced in health care that is accessible to anyone without any legal knowledge.

As unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from an expert witness perspective, providing the insights necessary to ensure a complete investigation.

Modern psychological and political theory meet head-on in this powerful re-evaluation of America's contradictory and sometimes dangerous addiction to individualism.

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

Academic global health programs are proliferating, and global health partnerships between North American academic institutions and institutions in low- and middle-income countries are steadily increasing.

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victimsIn Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears.

The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990.

Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments.

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

A series of recent high-profile court cases has demonstrated the inadequacy of current laws in addressing issues relating to medical treatment decisions involving seriously ill children.

The United States health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine.

Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells.

We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars.

This book examines the regulatory framework for untested and unapproved uses (off-label uses) of medicines in the EU, UK, and USA.

A one-stop reference for all medical professionals who encounter ethicolegal problems during their management of patients.

The Health of Populations: Beyond Medicine uses current research and in-depth analysis to provide insights into the issues and challenges of population health; a subject of increasing concern, due largely to rapid population growth, population aging, rising costs and diminishing resources, health inequality, and the global rise in noncommunicable diseases.

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular - and largely unexamined - idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it.

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

Drug use is a major challenge for public services, healthcare professionals and policy-makers all over the world.

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

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Medical Law is all about, Beginning Medical Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

Pflegefachkräfte sehen sich in der beruflichen Praxis häufig mit sozialrechtlichen Fragestellungen konfrontiert, die die Belange der zu Pflegenden betreffen und deren Kenntnisse über Leistungsansprüche der Versicherten fordern.

Fully revised for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health provides a concise practice-based guide.

This essential collection presents a state-of-the-art framework for how workers in public health and related disciplines should conceptualize health disparities and how they should be addressed worldwide.

Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world.

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.

A scientifically rigorous, multidisciplinary approach to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, for practitioners, researchers and families alike.

This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary-and extraordinarily ambitious-legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system.

A practical and easy-to-use guide for healthcare professionals on the prevention, assessment and treatment of people at risk of suicide.

Forensic psychiatry is growing in popularity, and many a practitioner feels the urge to explore this fascinating realm of endeavor.

Accountability is a key concern for nurses and midwives in the NHS today.

This book has been replaced by Clinicians in Court, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5332-7.

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities.

What does it mean to be the nation's doctor?

This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students.

There is no end in sight to the frequency with which physicians, nursing professionals and other healthcare providers will become lawsuit targets in our litigious society.

Medical Treatment Decisions and the Law covers an increasingly important area of law, seeking to place medical decision-making in its context and to provide practical guidance to the solution of many problems likely to be encountered in practice.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

Explains how and why laws against human germline modification will do more harm than good.