Medicolegal issues

This book explores the scope, application and role of medical law, regulatory norms and ethics, and addresses key challenges introduced by contemporary advances in biomedical research and healthcare.

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

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.

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law?

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the state of global health and current challenges, and offers innovative proposals for change.

Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance?

This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe.

Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must have an understanding of both basic principles, and how to apply them in daily practice.

Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes.

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges.

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

Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter.

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in women and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American women.

A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginias attorney general was suing to stop it.

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.

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

Documents experiences throughout the entire research process - from conceptualization, ethics approval, field-work, analysis, and publication.

"e;Health care managers, practitioners, and students must both operate as effectively as they can within the daunting and continually evolving system at hand and identify opportunities for reform advances Health Care Delivery in the United States has been an indispensable companion to those preparing to manage this balance.

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.

Academic global health programs are proliferating, and global health partnerships between North American academic institutions and institutions in low- and middle-income countries are steadily increasing.

Fully revised for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health provides a concise practice-based guide.

Today, most people use prescription medications.

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 book presents a contemporary view of human organ and tissue procurement.

Advances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges.

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.

The pervasiveness of global tuberculosis (TB) poses a particular set of challenges to policymakers.

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

The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public.

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.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law is the definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice.

This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics.

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

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law?

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of health privacy law, this important volume offers insightful reflection on issues such as confidentiality, privacy, and data protection, as well as analysis in how a range of jurisdictions-including the US, the UK, Europe, South Africa, and Australia-navigate a rapidly developing biomedical environment.

This book addresses the ethical problems in maternal-fetal medicine which impact directly on clinical practice.

Since the therapeutic value of umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells was first recognised in the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of both public and private UCB banks worldwide.

This book examines the legal, ethical and regulatory debates surrounding the rise of the cosmetic procedures industry.

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

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

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

The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics.

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.

Essential for anyone who uses computers in clinical practice and cares about the ethical issues that arise in their work.