Medicolegal issues

Genetics research with stored human tissues provides many benefits and holds much promise.

Millions of children and adults across the nation spend their days in school buildings, and they need safe, healthy environments to thrive, learn, and succeed.

Continually changing health threats, technologies, science, and demographics require that public health professionals have an understanding of law sufficient to address complex new public health challenges as they come into being.

In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr.

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

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell.

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

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.

Mental health professionals, more than any other clinicians, encounter legal issues on a regular basis.

Mental health professionals, more than any other clinicians, encounter legal issues on a regular basis.

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges.

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges.

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

Over the last two decades, stalking has received increasingly widespread attention.

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

While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond.

This is a comprehensive introduction to the ethical issues at stake in the conduct of biomedical research, with extensive use of case examples.

Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "e;law and order"e; in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual.

Depression is amorphous.

Depression is amorphous.

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

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

Forensic Psychiatry is the first book to cover the clinical, legal and ethical issues for the treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland jurisdictions.

Forensic Psychiatry is the first book to cover the clinical, legal and ethical issues for the treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland jurisdictions.

The groundbreaking isolation of embryonic stem cells (or 'ES cells') of the mouse in the early 1980s triggered a sustained expansion of global research into their exploitation.

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law is the definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice.

A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters offers practitioners highly practical advice on the legal principles which they need to apply to everyday clinical practice.

A Medic's Guide to Essential Legal Matters offers practitioners highly practical advice on the legal principles which they need to apply to everyday clinical practice.

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law is the definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice.

Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must have an understanding of both basic principles, and how to apply them in daily practice.

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.

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.

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in women and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American women.

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in women and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American women.

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

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell.

Over the last two decades, stalking has received increasingly widespread attention.

While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond.

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice?

Forensic DNA Applications: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Second Edition is fully updated to outline the latest advances in forensic DNA testing techniques and applications.

Forensic DNA Applications: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Second Edition is fully updated to outline the latest advances in forensic DNA testing techniques and applications.

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

More than ever before, the legal system plays a vital role in virtually every aspect of the current health care system.

No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens.

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

Medicine, Patients and the Law is a leading book in its field, aimed at practitioners and students of both law and medicine, as well as the general reader.

This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies.

This tenth edition of a classic textbook, updated in November 2013 with a free, downloadable chapter on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), presents the critical issues and core challenges surrounding our health care system.

Health Insurance Systems: An International Comparison offers united and synthesized information currently available only in scattered locations - if at all - to students, researchers, and policymakers.

Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technologyTechnological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care.