Medicolegal issues

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 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 work draws together a rich tapestry ofmaterial across many different disciplines,covering the crucial relationship betweenmedicine and law from the early apothecariesto the modern-day general practitioner.

Why does one-third of the global population not have access to essential medicines?

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

Human Rights and Healthcare looks at medical law from a human rights perspective.

Medical law and ethics are frequently referred to in conjunction, and appear together in many textbooks.

As developments in human genetics proceed apace,the regulation of genetic research and its applications is set to represent one of the major legal challenges of the next century.

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

'Proving' the cause of the plaintiff's injury in personal injury litigation often entails significant challenges, particularly when science cannot identify the cause of a biological phenomenon or when the nature of this cause is debatable.

This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body.

This new book provides a clear and accessible analysis of the various ways in which human reproduction is regulated.

Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions.

The story of how your NHS was sold off and why you will have to buy private health insurance soon.

Clinical Negligence, Fifth Edition remains the only text of its kind to cover both medical and legal aspects of medical negligence.

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

The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations.

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

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

Medical Treatment Decisions and the Law covers an increasingly important area of law, seeking to place medical decision-making in its context and to provide practical guidance to the solution of many problems likely to be encountered in practice.

Medical Treatment Decisions and the Law covers an increasingly important area of law, seeking to place medical decision-making in its context and to provide practical guidance to the solution of many problems likely to be encountered in practice.

Clinical Negligence, Fifth Edition remains the only text of its kind to cover both medical and legal aspects of medical negligence.

Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers, software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare costs out of control.

As society struggles to cope with the many repercussions of assisted life and death, the evening news is filled with stories of legal battles over frozen embryos and the possible prosecution of doctors for their patients' suicide.

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.

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.

Every day, healthcare professionals face high-stakes negotiations that directly impact patient outcomes, organizational success, and career advancement.

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.

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Patient suicide is an unavoidable occupational hazard of psychiatric practice.

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

The American Nurses Association is proud to announce a completely updated Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (The Code).

The American Nurses Association is proud to announce a completely updated Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (The Code).

For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond.

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

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

The purpose of this book is to address a popular debate in America right now.

In ›Die Erfindung des ADHS-Syndroms‹ wird die faszinierende Geschichte dieser weit verbreiteten neurobiologischen Störung von ihren Anfängen bis zu den aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen beleuchtet.

Promoting and maintaining good mental, physical and behavioural health of individuals, communities and populations is a key role of the registered nurse.

Promoting and maintaining good mental, physical and behavioural health of individuals, communities and populations is a key role of the registered nurse.

The perfect textbook for healthcare students who want a fresh, innovative way to understand how law and ethics relate to their studies, placements, and professional practice.

The perfect textbook for healthcare students who want a fresh, innovative way to understand how law and ethics relate to their studies, placements, and professional practice.

Patient suicide is an unavoidable occupational hazard of psychiatric practice.

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Pathology of Sharp Force Trauma illustrates and details sharp force trauma as seen in forensic pathology case work as well as in the clinical setting, outlining how one informs the other in interpreting such trauma for medico-legal purposes.

Caressing the spirit of African-American women both domestically and globally, Black Feat, through the power of story, offers a cultural perspective on medical impressions in black women and identifies duplicity in health care delivery.

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.