Medical Law Legislation category: 315 books
Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine
The United States, France, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflicts raise questions...
Genetic Data and the Law
A Critical Perspective on Privacy Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Research using genetic data raises various concerns relating to privacy protection. Many of these concerns can also apply to research that uses other personal data, but not with the same implications for failure. The norms of exclusivity associated with a private life go beyond the current legal concept...
Saviour Siblings
A Relational Approach to the Welfare of the Child in Selective Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Genetic screening technologies involving pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) raise particular issues about selective reproduction and the welfare of the child to be born. How does selection impact on the identity of the child who is born? Are children who are selected for a particular purpose...
End-of-Life Decisions in Medical Care
Principles and Policies for Regulating the Dying Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Those involved in end-of-life decision making must take into account both legal and ethical issues. This book starts with a critical reflection of ethical principles including ideas such as moral status, the value of life, acts and omissions, harm, autonomy, dignity and paternalism. It then explores...
The Cannabis Revolution©
What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
There is growing public support for the use of cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, but what does science say about the matter?
What we know is that cannabis contains more than four hundred potentially bioactive components, and while were unraveling its secrets, the potential medical...
A Good Death?
Law and Ethics in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This interdisciplinary collection presents valuable discourse and reflection on the nature of a good death. Bringing together a leading judge and other legal scholars, philosophers, social scientists, practitioners and parents who present varying accounts of a good death, the chapters draw from personal...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This book addresses the use and regulation of traditional drugs such as peyote, ayahuasca, coca leaf, cannabis, khat and Salvia divinorum. The uses of these substances can often be found at the intersection of diverse areas of life, including politics, medicine, shamanism, religion, aesthetics, knowledge...
Bioethics Mediation
A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Expanded by two-thirds from the 2004 edition, the new edition features two new role plays, a new chapter on how to write chart notes, and a discussion of new understandings of the role of the clinical ethics consultant. **** Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care...
Regulating Human Embryonic Stem Cell in China
A Comparative Study on Human Embryonic Stem Cell’s Patentability and Morality in US and EU
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The general scope of the book is the patentability and morality of human embryonic stem cell research in US, EU and China. The book observes fraudsters operate unsafe human embryonic stem cell therapies and officialdom turns a blind eye to the immoral human embryonic stem cell research in China. The...
Bioethics and Disability
Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge...
Acceptable Risk in Biomedical Research
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk. The acceptable level of risks is regulated by the requirement of proportionality in biomedical research law, which state that the risk and burden to the participant must be in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Many European Union Directives seek to minimize the potential for harm to humans and the environment arising from the use of chemicals. This book takes an interdisciplinary, selective look at the effector mechanisms employed in such directives. It covers the pre-marketing use of toxicology to identify...
Bearing Witness to Change
Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book explores the response of forensic psychiatry and psychology to changes over the last several decades. It presents the disciplines themselves as change agents that have shaped forensic work, public policy, and law. Topics include selected developments in forensic practice, the management...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Written from the viewpoint of the practicing clinician, this text is an indispensable addition to the library of anyone who is in the practice of medicine, osteopathy, or chiropractic, as well as for the judge, lawyer, or social worker who may interact with those presenting with the possibility of...