Medicolegal issues

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

This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization.

This theoretical and practical guide to Mental Capacity Statute considers recent case law, medico-legal challenges and future legislation.

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

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

Courts recognize that those who are involved in medico-legal proceedings have a stake in the outcome of their psychological assessment, regardless of whether they are high- or low-functioning individuals.

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.

Provides a theoretical background to psychiatric writing in legal contexts and a practical guide to preparing the written report.

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.

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'.

The second volume of an overall look at the "e;malpractice crisis"e; sheds fresh light on the civil justice and insurance systems, medical liability issues, and their combined effect on health care for mothers and children.

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

Students and professional nurses at any level of clinical practice will find this book to be a vital resource on the basic legal concepts and principles of malpractice, liability, and risk management, and their implications for the profession.

Despite its frequency and its potential severity, preventable medical harm is still prominent in American hospitals and continues to put an alarming amount of lives at risk, being the third leading cause of death in the United States.

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

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Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful medical treatment.

A clinical handbook on gestational surrogacy, with thorough guidance for clinicians involved in global third-party reproductive treatment.

Identifies ethical issues and requirements of genetically-based addiction research, specifies the ethical and public policy implications of applying research.

While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States.

Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation.

A proposal for resolving tensions between professionals and society regarding tissue for transplants and research, while properly protecting donors'' interests.

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

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.

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.

Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively through policy and practice.

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

Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries' political and health service agendas.

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

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

The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual.

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In recent years, the hospital industry has been undergoing massive change and reorganization with technological innovations and the spread of managed care.

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice?

A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada.

Depression is amorphous.

In Health in Ruins Cesar Ernesto Abadia-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno-Colombia's oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital-over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown.

This book combines empirical research with commentary on ethics, policy and legislation, raising provocative questions about reproductive donation and surrogacy.

28 detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of difficult consultations.

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

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.

Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.

In this age of increasing headlines about drug addiction and prescription drug abuse, this book is a timely revelation of how the nursing profession is also impacted by substance abuse.

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.

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.

This is the first part of an in-depth study focusing on medical liability and its effect on access to and delivery of obstetrical care.