Medical Law category: 575 books
The Law on Medicines
Volume 1 A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Medicines Act 1968 together with its delegated legislation comprehensively controls the manufacture, packaging, labelling, distribution and promotion of medicines for both human and animal use in the United Kingdom. It also controls the import and export of such medicines. It replaced a patchwork...
The Law on Medicines
Volume 3 Distribution and Selling
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Medicines Act 1968 together with its delegated legislation comprehensively controls the manufacture, packaging, labelling, distribution and promotion of medicines for both human and animal use in the United Kingdom. It also controls the import and export of such medicines. It replaced a patchwork...
Governing Public Health
EU Law, Regulation and Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book contributes towards EU studies and the growing discourse on law and public health. It uses the EU's governance of public health as a lens through which to explore questions of legal competence and its development through policy and concrete techniques, processes and practices, risk and security,...
by Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the hottest issues heading into President Barack Obama's second term as president. Passed in early 2010 amidst extreme controversy and general public negativity, the bill still has yet to be fully understood by laypeople and legal experts alike.
Because...
Intoxication and Society
Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means to be human. In the tensions between 'free' and uninhibited consumption on the one hand, and the pressures of...
The Nanotechnology Challenge
Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Nanotechnology is the wave of the future, and has already been incorporated into everything from toothpaste to socks to military equipment. The safety of nanotechnology for human health and the environment is a great unknown, however, and no legal system in the world has yet devised a way to reasonably...
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property
Property Rights in Dead Bodies, Body Parts, and Genetic Information
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of property law is capable of controlling the interests generated by the engineering of human tissues. Through a comparative consideration of non-Western societies and industrialized cultures, this book addresses...
Pills for the Poorest
An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era. Pills for the Poorest offers a new perspective on the much-debated issue of the links between intellectual property and access to medication. Using...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth. It contains essays from a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine, anthropology, history and sociology, examining birth...
The Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction
Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Posthumous reproduction refers to the procedure that enables a child to be conceived using the gametes of a dead person. Advances in reproductive technology mean it is now possible to assist in creating a life after you die, and in recent years the number of women who have attempted to get pregnant...
The New Eugenics
Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of “inferior” genetic strains, ultimately came to be regarded as the great shame of the Progressive movement....
by Abraham Gitterman, Daniel Kracov, Allison Shuren
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This guide provides a detailed overview of the Sunshine Act, transparency initiatives, and related implications associated with increased attention on physician-industry relationships. • Section II provides background and the legislative history of the Sunshine Act. • Section III provides a detailed...
by Johanna Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public...
Regulating Lifestyle Risks
The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This collection of essays looks at the role the European Union could and should play in promoting healthier lifestyle, in light of the moral, philosophical, legal and political challenges associated with the regulation of individual choices. By tackling the main non-communicable diseases (NCD) risk...