Health

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887561484Author Guy BreshearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Guy BreshearsPublisher Guy BreshearsWeight(grams) 1266g

The potential of the e-health revolution, increased data sharing, database linking, biobanks and new techniques such as geolocation and genomics to advance human health is immense. For the full potential to be realized, though, privacy and...

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book presents a discussion of the key ethical values in contemporary medicine and health, notably in relation to neglected diseases like malaria, Ebola and Zika. The lack of treatments for...

While the shockingly high prices of prescription drugs continue to dominate the news, the strategies used by pharmaceutical companies to prevent generic competition are poorly understood, even by the lawmakers responsible for regulating them. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223907619Author Roberto Miguel RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Roberto Miguel RodriguezPublisher Roberto Miguel RodriguezWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990820302Author A S WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Three Towers PressPublisher Three Towers PressWeight(grams) 576g

The use of the criminal law to punish those who transmit disease is a topical and controversial issue. To date, the law, and the related academic literature, has largely focused on HIV transmission. With contributions from leading practitioners and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587980930Author Robert J. BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard Books

We live in an era when all bodies are potentially 'feminised' by being rendered 'open-access' for biomedical research and clinical practice. Adopting a theoretically sophisticated and practical approach, Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives...

Since adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the interpretive General Comment 1, the topic of legal capacity in mental health settings has generated considerable debate in disciplines ranging from law and psychiatry to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316514207Author Steph JowettFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715656Author Ben TrokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 717g

In recent years, debates have arisen concerning the encroachment of the criminal process in regulating fatal medical error, the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the recent release of the Director of Public...

Through a comparative global study of countries from all continents representing a diversity of health, legal, political, and economic systems, this book explores the role of health rights in advancing greater equality through access to health care. Does...

Since Dolly the sheep was born, controversy has swirled around the technology of cloning. We recoil at the prospect of human copies, manufactured men and women, nefarious impersonators and resurrections of the dead. Such reactions have serious legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789858037Author Natasha PotgieterFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466980501Author Khaled El EmamFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925501490Author Gary JohnsFormat PaperbackImprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196530990Author Deepti MeenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Associated Publishing HousePublisher Associated Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 268g

This volume maps the areas of ethical concern in the debate regarding the governance of genetic information, and suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation in order to inform its restructuring. Genetic governance is at the heart of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466980518Author Khaled El EmamFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Can an employer refuse to hire someone who tests positive for nicotine or alcohol? Can an airline or movie theatre require overweight customers to purchase two seats? Can a health insurance company refuse to sell policies to those most in need of medical...

Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These groups also share harsh histories of medical experimentation, eugenic sterilizations, and health care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960629005Author Bulger J RogerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 363g

While advances in science and technology bring many advantages, we must not ignore the harm that they can cause. Rapid changes in genetic testing are a prime example, and indicators can now help to detect, address and treat diseases. However, in this new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633853904Author Jonathan SvitakFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Word Association PublishersPublisher Word Association PublishersWeight(grams) 136g

This volume provides an alternate history of health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective. Each chapter includes a rewritten opinion penned by a leading scholar relying exclusively on court precedents and scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647840440Author S J KlumpenhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint EhgbooksPublisher EhgbooksWeight(grams) 152g

This book approaches a variety of social and political issues that have become highly polarized and resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective. The topics included are some of the most contentious:...

Bioethics has long been accepted as an interdisciplinary field. The recent 'empirical turn' in bioethics is, however, creating challenges that move beyond those of simple interdisciplinary collaboration, as researchers grapple with the methodological,...

Market driven healthcare is massively divisive. Opponents argue that a competition approach to medical treatment negatively impacts on quality, while advocates point to increased efficiencies. This book casts a critical eye over both positions to show...

Through a comparative global study of countries from all continents representing a diversity of health, legal, political, and economic systems, this book explores the role of health rights in advancing greater equality through access to health care. Does...

The privacy concerns discussed in the 1990s in relation to the New Genetics failed to anticipate the relevant issues for individuals, families, geneticists and society. Consumers, for example, can now buy their personal genetic information and share it...

European Libraries and the Internet: Copyright and Extended Collective Licences examines libraries online use of in-copyright works from their collections and how such use is affected by copyright. In particular, the book examines whether the system of...

Since Dolly the sheep was born, controversy has swirled around the technology of cloning. We recoil at the prospect of human copies, manufactured men and women, nefarious impersonators and resurrections of the dead. Such reactions have serious legal...

Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play a central role in the politics of harm, making decisions regarding what counts as injury and what might be the most suitable forms of redress or remedy. But where do law and medicine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999144664Author Michael HackardFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Hackard Global Media, LLCPublisher Hackard Global Media, LLCWeight(grams) 259g

This is a book for an extraordinary time, about a pandemic for which there is no modern precedent. It is an edited collection of original essays on Asia's legal and policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, which, in a matter of months, swept around the...

The phenomenon of the New Genetics raises complex social problems, particularly those of privacy. This book offers ethical and legal perspectives on the questions of a right to know and not to know genetic information from the standpoint of individuals,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009152624Author Daisy CheungFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press