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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

Creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple's home and the privacy of their bedroom. To the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators,...

Health care delivery is shifting away from the clinic and into the home. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth, wearable sensors, ambient surveillance, and other products was on the rise. In the coming years, patients will...

Creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple's home and the privacy of their bedroom. To the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators,...

In America, in direct response to indefinite delays on the national transplantation waitlists and an inadequate supply of organs, a growing number of terminally ill Americans are turning to international underground markets and coordinators or brokers...

Never before have two revolutions with so much potential to save and prolong human life occurred simultaneously. The converging, synergistic power of the biochemical and digital revolutions now allows us to read every letter of life's code, create...

Regulating Obesity?: Government, Society, and Questions of Health explores the effectiveness of legal interventions aimed at promoting healthier lifestyles. In it, W.A. Bogart suggests that the government's emphasis on encouraging weight loss and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478760559Author Fipc Adria Goldman GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 186g

Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves? In the dominant account of diffusion through technocracy, international networks of elites develop orthodox policy solutions and transplant these across countries without regard for the wishes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979920561Author Thomas O RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692432129Author Jo Kline CebuharFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Murphy PublishingPublisher Murphy PublishingWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

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Health care delivery is shifting away from the clinic and into the home. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth, wearable sensors, ambient surveillance, and other products was on the rise. In the coming years, patients will...

Burdened with perennially rising costs and responsible for providing health insurance to more than one sixth of all Americans, Medicare in its original form is fiscally and demographically unsustainable. In light of dramatic reforms under the Affordable...

This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy. In particular, it explains the role of criminal law, that is, what criminal law protection of patient autonomy looks like on a European scale in both legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940767178Author Lauren SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Expert Health PressPublisher Expert Health PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788831637282Author Rare Cancers EuropeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint YoucanprintPublisher YoucanprintWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952751288Author Sinisa FranjicFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 159g

The challenges facing the healthcare industry are unparalleled in scope, number, and magnitude. Organizational realignments of health care systems, uncertainty about the course and impact of legislation, an aging population with evolving clinical needs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947170001Author Anant Kumar TripatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Sureshot Books Publishing LLCPublisher Sureshot Books Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866382786Author Andrew RosserFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint East-West CenterPublisher East-West CenterWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692329269Author Christian LongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Conpendium PublishersPublisher Conpendium PublishersWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615798790Author Matthew IronsFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint M.I. PublishingPublisher M.I. PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis. This book explores these inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and...

A sharp expose of the roots of the cost-exposure consensus in American health care that shows how the next wave of reform can secure real access and efficiency.The toxic battle over how to reshape American health care has overshadowed the underlying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848743285Author Leonie VierckFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 227g

Proposals have been put forward to replace the current paper Medicare cards, which display beneficiaries Social Security numbers, with electronically readable cards, and to issue electronically readable cards to providers as well. Electronically readable...

The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial...

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's health and rights. Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in...

Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. This timely book inquires into the foundational principles of a form of public health law that takes seriously the inherent...

Are pregnant women entitled to the same rights of self-determination and bodily integrity as other adults? This is the fundamental question underlying recent high-profile legal interventions in situations when pregnant women and healthcare staff do not...

Discrimination based on body weight is an underestimated and widespread problem. There is not a single national law worldwide that prohibits weight discrimination, but quite a number of laws and policies that reinforce, or at least reflect, the existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008225Author Polly J. PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The relationship between health and law in not new but the relation is multifaceted. Law and health are both subjects with an inherent dynamism. Health and law as a curricular subject of law is a recent addition and is taught in law colleges under many...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis. This book explores these inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and...

Health Care and the Charter will be of interest to students and scholars of courts, rights litigation, and health policy, as well as health policy scholars, policy-makers, legal scholars, political scientists, and readers with a general interest in the...

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how...