Medicolegal issues

How cutting-edge economics can improve decision-making methods for doctorsAlthough uncertainty is a common element of patient care, it has largely been overlooked in research on evidence-based medicine.

Clinicians must practice medicine in conformity with regulatory requirements.

Unlocking Medical Law and Ethics will help you grasp the main concepts of Medical Law with ease.

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

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.

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

Since the 1980s legislators and courts have responded in a variety of ways to the onset of the AIDS pandemic.

An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients.

Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care.

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies.

This is the contemporary, applied text on evaluation that your students need.

A cross-disciplinary take on the rising phenomenon of female genital cosmetic surgery, from world-leading experts, in a single volume.

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.

In their latest collaboration, Clinical Manual of Psychiatry and Law, noted forensic psychiatrist Dr.

This extensively revised third edition continues to provide reliable basic information and possible solutions to the legal problems that often affect people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

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

Text, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to often controversial areas of the law.

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

Mason explores aspects of pregnancy which involve medico-legal intervention, including unwanted or undesired pregnancies.

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

Accountability is a key concern for nurses and midwives in the NHS today.

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

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

Civil Commitment in the Treatment of Eating Disorders presents a comprehensive view on the use of involuntary hospitalization in the treatment of patients with anorexia and other eating disorders.

A comprehensive reference providing an approach to problems of biomedical ethics in the clinical setting.

Patient suicide is an unavoidable occupational hazard of psychiatric practice.

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

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

Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity.

Civil Commitment in the Treatment of Eating Disorders presents a comprehensive view on the use of involuntary hospitalization in the treatment of patients with anorexia and other eating disorders.

The United States health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine.

An in-depth examination of the factors contributing to the criminalization of mental illness and strategies to combat them.

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years.

Forensic psychiatry is growing in popularity, and many a practitioner feels the urge to explore this fascinating realm of endeavor.

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

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

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years.

Drug use is a major challenge for public services, healthcare professionals and policy-makers all over the world.

At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Southern, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South.

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.

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

There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care.

Explains how and why laws against human germline modification will do more harm than good.

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.