Medicolegal issues

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.

Even the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love.

Economic Evaluation of Pharmacy Services provides the latest on the trend to a more product-centered and service-centered practice, eschewing traditional economic evaluation techniques that focus on product-to-product comparisons in favor of evaluating processes that measure costs and health outcomes.

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

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

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.

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This book provides a unique and in-depth coverage of ethical and moral issues in medicine and their legal implications.

This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics.

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice?

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.

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

Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans.

This book provides a clear pathway through the common yet complex legal dilemmas frequently encountered in emergency medical practice.

As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v.

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

Many workers in medicine, healthcare administration, science, and technology, no matter how strong their academic degrees or how distinguished their careers, find themselves baffled, frustrated, and even angered by their encounters with the law.

Highly illustrated complete overview of pathological aspects of sudden death in the young, from before birth to middle adult life.

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami.

Planning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population?

A major target of Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 is the elimination of 'the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases' and combating 'hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases'.

Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.

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.

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

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law.

Public silence in policymaking can be deafening.

En los tiempos que vivimos, editar un libro sobre Salud Global constituye un imperativo de carácter ético, dadas las coyunturas de la sociedad contemporánea.

Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States.

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.

Dementia is a topic of enormous human, medical, economic, legal and ethical importance.

Millions of people each year decide to participate in clinical trials--medical research studies involving an innovative treatment for a medical problem.

The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know who to admit and when, at what stage invasive management should be withdrawn, and who, importantly, should decide?

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionA New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book AwardWinner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact AwardAs revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.

The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently.

Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Welche Zwangsmaßnahme ist medizinisch indiziert und rechtlich zulässig?

A comprehensive discussion of a number of current and emerging governance issues in EU health policy.

Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads.

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

At present, human society is facing a health care crisis that is affecting patients worldwide.

Discusses the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning.

Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law.