Medical Law category: 575 books
by Katharina Suhr
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Das Buch liefert einen umfassenden rechtlichen Überblick über das kognitive Enhancement. Dieses umfasst medizinisch nicht indizierte Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung der kognitiven Leistungsfähigkeit bei Menschen, die als gesund gelten. Der Grundlagenteil der Arbeit ist der Klärung und Entwicklung...
America's Bitter Pill
Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in...
Assisted Dying
Reflections on the Need for Law Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in the 21st Century. This book provides an in-depth critique of the arguments surrounding legislative control...
EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice
Towards New Paradigms for the Provision of Health Care Services?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union.
Using the concepts and principles embedded in the theories of egalitarianism...
Balancing Wealth and Health
The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries. Specifically, the contributors look at measures that regulate the acquisition, recognition, and use of patent rights on pharmaceuticals and trade secrets...
Persons, Parts and Property
How Should we Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century?
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change. Having long held that a corpse could not be property, the common law first recognised that there could be a property interest in human tissue in some...
Obamacare vs. The Kingdom of God
How The Pagan Classical Foundations of Roe v. Wade Have Been Written Into America's National Healthcare Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This legal treatise traces the lineage of Obamacare to Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court opinion that deemed a woman's right to abortion to be a "fundamental right." Learn how the free-abortion practices of Ancient Greece and Rome form the foundational assumptions of Roe v. Wade,...
Infectious Disease
Policy, Law, and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Infectious Disease Policy Law, and Regulation looks at litigation regarding infection-related illnesses and their compensation. The claim arises from an individual victim who attempts to prove that the cause of their specific infection was the negligent act of an entity that is a “vector” of their type of illness, such as a hospital, surgeon, restaurant or retail marketplace.
by Professor Emily Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The principal purpose of this book is to tell the story of a medicine's journey through the regulatory system in the UK, from defining what counts as a medicine, through clinical trials, licensing, pharmacovigilance, marketing and funding. The question of global access to medicines is addressed because...
Reconsidering Law and Policy Debates
A Public Health Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
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: abortion and reproductive rights; end-of-life issues,...
Ethical and legal debates in Irish healthcare
Confronting complexities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. This collection provides a foundation for ongoing engagement with selected issues in contemporary Irish health contexts. It includes contributions from scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines....
Bioethics
Methods, Theories, Domains
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book, the first in a series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at national and international levels. The volume provides a serious...
Advance Care Decision Making in Germany and Italy
A Comparative, European and International Law Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
What is the situation of people who are unable to make decisions due to a physical or mental change? This book gives impulses and answers to many ethical, economical and mainly legal questions which arise and are associated with the end of life. A universal human rights approach and the analysis of...