Medical Law Legislation category: 315 books
Malpractice and Medical Liability
European State of the Art and Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Medical responsibility lawsuits have become a fact of life in every physician’s medical practice. However, there is evidence that physicians are increasingly practising defensive medicine, ordering more tests than may be necessary and avoiding patients with complicated conditions. The modern practice...
by Danuta Mendelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Causation is an issue that is fundamental in both law and medicine, as well as the interface between the two disciplines. It is vital for the resolution of a great many disputes in court concerning personal injuries, medical negligence, criminal law and coronial issues, as well as in the provision...
Personalized Medicine
A New Medical and Social Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book offers comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of personalized medicine as an original approach to classifying, understanding, treating and preventing disease based on individual biological differences. In the introductory section, it defines personalized medicine as a way toward new...
Juridification in Bioethics
Governance of Human Pluripotent Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research....
Law and Bioethics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2002
While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background. Detailing how the legal analysis of an issue in bioethics often differs from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The prostitution of the German psychiatric profession into a Nazi inquisitional tool was a major factor producing the total degradation of German medicine and moral ity. Its low point was its psychiatrists killing the patients they were sworn to care for, and its other physicians performing inhuman...
Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment
A Practical Approach to Prevention and Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This landmark practical guide assists all those involved in monitoring detention conditions and investigating and preventing torture. The prestigious global author team identify the medical, legal and professional frameworks and international instruments applicable to those detained, and highlight...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Mental health professionals, more than any other clinicians, encounter legal issues on a regular basis. This is a book for anyone in the field, at any stage in their training or practice, who has ever found themselves scratching their head in confusion or dreading that they will expose themselves...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The papers in this section on the legal aspects of nursing can be divided into two parts: (a) the rights and responsibilities of nurses, patients, and the medical system and (b) treatment, with its legal ramifications. How does one decide whether patients' rights or the health professional's rights...
If That Ever Happens to Me
Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Schiavo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions...
by Xiju Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The book pays interest to a small and almost untouched topic: a health practitioner’ s duty to inform about alternatives. It covers both orthodox medicine practitioners and CAM practitioners. The topic is explored in a co mparative way, examining the laws of not only common law jurisdictions, such...
The Status of the Family in Law and Bioethics
The Genetic Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Where do a doctor's responsibilities lie in communicating diagnostic and predictive genetic information to a patient's family members? On the one hand, a patient may wish to retain confidentiality while the relatives seek information; on the other, a patient may wish to share the information while...
Your Money or Your Life
Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told,...
The Economic Evolution of American Health Care
From Marcus Welby to Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
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. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles...