Medical Law & Legislation

This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research sponsored by industrialized countries or industry, and carried out in developing countries. The chief concern is that research...

Daniel Sperling discusses the legal status of posthumous interests and their possible defeat by actions performed following the death of a person. The author first explores the following questions: Do the dead have interests and/or rights, the defeat of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enduring effect across the entire spectrum of law and policy, in areas ranging from health equity and racial justice, to constitutional law, the law of prisons, federal benefit programs, election law and much more. This...

Daniel Sperling discusses the legal status of posthumous interests and their possible defeat by actions performed following the death of a person. The author first explores the following questions: Do the dead have interests and/or rights, the defeat of...

This analysis of the law's approach to healthcare decision-making critiques its liberal foundations in respect of three categories of people: adults with capacity, adults without capacity and adults who are subject to mental health legislation. Focusing...

Hospitals - definition and classification; hospitals managed under the National Health Service Act 1977; voluntary hospitals; nursing homes - registration, conduct and inspection; legal proceedings against Health Authorities and Trusts; injury to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992533809Author Amelda LangslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Health Law EducationPublisher Health Law EducationWeight(grams) 1075gDimensions(mm)...

The Medical Biobank of Umea in Sweden, deCODE's Health Sector Database in Iceland, the Estonian Genome Project and the UK Biobank contain health data and genetic data from large populations. Some include genealogical or lifestyle information. They are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300033847Author Angela Roddey HolderFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 762g

Almost all pathologists face legal issues when dealing with the specimens they work with on a day-to-day basis, whether it involves quality control and assurance in handling the specimens, facing the possibility of malpractice suits, or serving as an...

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice? Bad medical outcomes traumatize patients but they also traumatize physicians. The litigation that often follows is a profoundly human, rather than just a legal experience. Although every physician's...

The result of two key social developments in recent years are examined here: the partial dismantling of the welfare state and the progress of genetics. Genetic insights are increasingly valuable for risk assessment, and insurers would like to use these...

Preface by T. Morrison, Director-General of the European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association. Contributors: W. Kewenig; G. Forlani, J. Marriage, G. Ulloa This book is based upon a report prepared at the request of the European Commission. Its purpose is...

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...

The authors of this work closely explore the incidence of problem youth behaviors and scrutinize the efficacy of existing prevention programs. This review includes interventions specifically designed to promote youth development or to minimize the...

In light of new biomedical technologies, such as artificial reproduction, stem cell research, genetic selection and design, the question of what we owe to future persons-and unborn life more generally-is as contested as ever. In A Theory of Unborn Life:...

The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law governing aspects of medical practice at the beginning and end of life. The...

Jewish Biomedical Law deals with the controversial issues of abortion, assisted reproduction, genetics, the obligation to heal, patient autonomy, treatment of the terminally ill, the definition of death, organ donations, and the allocation of scarce...

Bioethics was "born in the USA" and the values American bioethics embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice. This book crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for...

Using courtroom resolutions of real bioethical disputes as its focus, Standard of Care explores the fundamental value conflicts confronting medicine and society. This case-based approach illuminates the value choices with which the power of modern...

Graeme Laurie stepped down from the Chair in Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. This edited collection pays tribute to his extraordinary contributions to the field. Graeme often spoke about the importance of 'legacy' in...

Increasing quantities of information about our health, bodies, and biological relationships are being generated by health technologies, research, and surveillance. This escalation presents challenges to us all when it comes to deciding how to manage this...

In the years following FDA approval of direct-to-consumer, genetic-health-risk testing, millions of people in the United States have sent their DNA to companies to receive personal genetic health risk information without physician or other learned...

In the years following FDA approval of direct-to-consumer, genetic-health-risk testing, millions of people in the United States have sent their DNA to companies to receive personal genetic health risk information without physician or other learned...

Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Hayry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning and stem cell research, gene therapies and enhancements...

How best to manage risk involving multi-valued human biological materials is the overarching theme of this book, which draws on the sourcing and supply of blood as a case study. Blood has ethical, social, scientific and commercial value. This...

Access to medical treatment for trans youth occupies a haphazard and dynamic legal landscape. In this comprehensive scholarly analysis of the historical and current legal principles, Steph Jowett examines the medico-legal nexus of regulation of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947170117Author Merit Anant Kumar Tripati LLMFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Sureshot Books Publishing LLCPublisher Sureshot Books Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960762054Author Timothy PaterickFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint American Association for Physician LeadershipPublisher American Association for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789975347501Author Kanon N CliffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947170124Author Merit Anant Kumar Tripati LLMFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Sureshot Books Publishing LLCPublisher Sureshot Books Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947170094Author Merit Anant Kumar Tripati LLMFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Sureshot Books Publishing LLCPublisher Sureshot Books Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413405361Author Ernest P ChiodoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947170049Author Merit Anant Kumar Tripati LLMFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Sureshot Books Publishing LLCPublisher Sureshot Books Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947170100Author Merit Anant Kumar Tripati LLMFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Sureshot Books Publishing LLCPublisher Sureshot Books Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834209251Author Aspen Health Law and Compliance CenterFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S...

This book aims to analyse the legal tools that the legislatures of France, Germany and Italy adopted in order to regulate medical malpractice.In the mid-1970s, a reform movement started in the United States, where there was considerable concern about...

Data sharing – broadly defined as the exchange of health-related data among multiple controllers and processors – has gained increased relevance in the health sciences over recent years as the need and demand for collaboration has increased. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604563573Author Leana J AlbertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 113Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 424g

Health care providers frequently engage in setting policy agenda at the individual, systems, institutional, or public level. Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals, Second Edition provides an overview of the policy...