Medicolegal issues

Coercion is one of the most fascinating and controversial subjects in psychiatry.

Leading international specialists evaluate the ethical and social implications of developments in reporting surgeon performance.

A passionate and heartrending memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America's new health crisis.

This textbook explains what pharmacy students and practicing pharmacists need to know about pharmacy and the law, including recent changes in the National Health Service.

Addiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires.

A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.

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.

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

Automatism is a notoriously difficult subject for law students, lawyers and judges.

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

In der Notaufnahme Tätige werden in ihrer Arbeit häufig mit juristischen Fragestellungen konfrontiert, auf die sie in aller Regel nicht gut vorbereitet sind.

Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States.

Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity.

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

In Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life.

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.

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.

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

Anhand von über 30 kniffligen Fallbeispielen aus dem Arbeitsalltag in Notaufnahmen führen die Autoren in das Behandlungsrecht der Notaufnahmen ein.

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.

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

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

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

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.

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.

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

Covers how and why medication failures occur in anesthesia and the perioperative period, with essential information on safety interventions.

This text offers a comprehensive insight into the management of, and the legal, medical and financial aspects of, medical insurance claims.

This text offers a comprehensive insight into the management of, and the legal, medical and financial aspects of, medical insurance claims.

What does it mean to be the nation's doctor?

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

There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease.

Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care.

This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier's outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics.

The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city.

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

This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately.

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

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

Insightful analysis of how senior doctors manage the difficult moral problems they confront in leadership roles.

As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v.

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.

Un código de ética profesional hace explícitos los objetivos, valores y obligaciones principales de una profesión dada.

Analyzing the concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this timely new book explores a broad selection of disciplines, including criminal and medical law, medical ethics, philosophy and social policy and suggests an alternative solution to the one currently used by the courts, based on grading different categories of killing into a formalized justificatory defence.

This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities.

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?

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