Medicolegal issues

Los vertiginosos avances científicos de los últimos años han afectado de manera fundamental el ejercicio de la medicina.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

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

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.

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

Focusing on a matter of continuing contemporary significance, this book is the first work to offer an in-depth exploration of exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship.

Personal Social Services serves as a comprehensive source of statistical data for any researcher, be they students or professional.

Disaster Victim Identification: A Manager's Guide to Policy and Procedure's guiding thesis explains why disaster victim identification (DVI) must be fundamentally integrated-at the outset-into general disaster planning and operations procedures.

A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

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

A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient.

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals.

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

Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine.

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

In übersichtlichen Kapiteln behandelt das Lehrbuch das Spektrum der juristischen Fragestellungen, die sich bei dem Betrieb eines Krankenhauses ergeben - chronologisch von der Gründung eines Krankenhauses bis zur Durchführung von kassen- und privatärztlichen Behandlungen.

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

Strategies in Workers' Compensation, written with the healthcare medical professional in mind, describes the nuts and bolts of workers compensation.

Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

This illuminating study explores the role of professionals, patients, regulation and law in improving patient safety.

Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage.

Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century.

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 was written to encourage nurses to become involved in the political processn by running for office, seeking appointments, or becoming active on some level in local government.

This book reviews the efficacy of Global Health Law, assessing why its legal framework based on the International Health Regulations did not represent a valid tool in the containment of modern global pandemics such as COVID-19.

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.

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

The Evidence-Based Practice Manual was developed as an all-inclusive and comprehensive practical desktop resource.

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This is a guide for all doctors - GPs and hospital doctors alike, on the law and how it affects them.

Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particulary women.

Awareness of the law is an essential part of any medical practice manager's role and is becoming even more important as patients and employees are becoming more litigation conscious.

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 is the definitive reference on disaster medicine, outlining areas of proficiency for health care professionals handling mass casualty crises.

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals.

There is now considerable anxiety amongst nurses and allied health professionals as to how they should negotiate the potential minefield of legal niceties, professional dictates and diminishing resources in today's health service.

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.

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the state of global health and current challenges, and offers innovative proposals for change.

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study.

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

As health care concerns grow in the U.

The Mental Capacity Act (2005) governs decision-making processes on behalf of adults who are unable to give informed consent, whether they lose mental capacity at some point in their lives due to illness or injury or where the incapacitating condition has been present since birth.

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Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons establishes guidelines for the study and implementation of pharmaceutical price surveys, analyses, and comparisons.

The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places.

Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason.

A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world.