Medicolegal issues

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law.

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law.

Comprehensive, practical and reflective of the current Australian and New Zealand legislative framework and regulations, this unique textbook addresses legal and ethical issues across a broad range of traditional and complementary practices.

Comprehensive, practical and reflective of the current Australian and New Zealand legislative framework and regulations, this unique textbook addresses legal and ethical issues across a broad range of traditional and complementary practices.

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

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

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction: An Illustrated Manual and Field Guide provides methodologies to help investigators to think broadly when seeking out evidence at a scene and, likewise, utilize all the information from a case-especially the observable physical evidence, besides what are collectable, in reconstructing events.

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction: An Illustrated Manual and Field Guide provides methodologies to help investigators to think broadly when seeking out evidence at a scene and, likewise, utilize all the information from a case-especially the observable physical evidence, besides what are collectable, in reconstructing events.

This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment.

This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment.

The raging COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our trust in science.

The raging COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our trust in science.

This book provides a practical guide for all those working in or with Medical Examiner Services in England and Wales.

This book provides a practical guide for all those working in or with Medical Examiner Services in England and Wales.

Originally published in Spanish in 2017 by Libreria Bosch, Barcelona, the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology is a one-of-kind book made available in English for the first time.

Originally published in Spanish in 2017 by Libreria Bosch, Barcelona, the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology is a one-of-kind book made available in English for the first time.

Whether you are a doctor, nurse, student, or otherwise interested reader, the stories here will help you to understand how medicine works and how medical error can happen.

Whether you are a doctor, nurse, student, or otherwise interested reader, the stories here will help you to understand how medicine works and how medical error can happen.

In the context of a growing criticism on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, scientists, or politicians, Conflict of Interest and Medicine offers a comprehensive analysis of the conflict of interest in medicine anchored in the social sciences, with perspectives from sociology, history, political science, and law.

In the context of a growing criticism on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, scientists, or politicians, Conflict of Interest and Medicine offers a comprehensive analysis of the conflict of interest in medicine anchored in the social sciences, with perspectives from sociology, history, political science, and law.

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime.

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime.

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research.

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research.

Pathology of Sharp Force Trauma illustrates and details sharp force trauma as seen in forensic pathology case work as well as in the clinical setting, outlining how one informs the other in interpreting such trauma for medico-legal purposes.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

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.

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.

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

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

The emergence of new and substantial human migration flows is one of the most important consequences of globalisation.

The emergence of new and substantial human migration flows is one of the most important consequences of globalisation.

The best storytellers and presenters know that a picture is worth a thousand words.

The best storytellers and presenters know that a picture is worth a thousand words.

This text offers a comprehensive insight into the management of, and the legal, medical and financial aspects of, medical insurance claims.

This text offers a comprehensive insight into the management of, and the legal, medical and financial aspects of, medical insurance claims.

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

The American healthcare system is failing us.

This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe.

This first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades.

The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2006Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents.

Population aging often provokes fears of impending social security deficits, uncontrollable medical expenditures, and transformations in living arrangements, but public policy could also stimulate social innovations.

The failure of long-term care is the country's best-kept embarrassing secret.

In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated.