Medical Law category: 575 books
by Kallia Gavela
Language: German
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Das deutsche Strafgesetzbuch kennt keinen Sondertatbestand der Suizidbeteiligung. Rechtliche Konstruktionen und Wertungen insbesondere höchstrichterlicher Herkunft füllen diese Lücke. Die sich daraus vor allem für behandelnde Ärzte ergebenden Probleme drängen sich bei unheilbar kranken, dem...
Generation Roe
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Strong support among women was key to Obama’s reelection. At the start of his second term, it is time for Barack Obama, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally help lead us to demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most of those...
Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access
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More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages,...
Drug Wars
How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
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 groundbreaking work, Robin Feldman and Evan Frondorf...
The Right to Know and the Right Not to Know
Genetic Privacy and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
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 online. The challenges facing genetic privacy...
Bioproperty, Biomedicine and Deliberative Governance
Patents as Discourse on Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Biomedical patents have been the subject of heated debate. Regulatory agencies such as the European Patent Office make small decisions with big implications, which escape scrutiny and revision, when they decide who has access to expensive diagnostic tests, whether human embryonic stem cells can be...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Organ transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor. Evolving capabilities in the spheres of both organ and tissue...
International Neurolaw
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Whereas the past few years have repeatedly been referred to as the “era of biotechnology”, most recently the impression has emerged that at least the same degree of attention is being paid to the latest developments in the field of neurosciences. It has now become nearly impossible to maintain...
by Isabelle Lutte (dir.), Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre le dommage corporel.Les questions de l’évaluation et de la réparation du dommage corporel sont récurrentes dans la pratique de nombreux professionnels du droit. Aléa médical, dommage moral, comportement de la victime, capitalisation,...
by Fernando Silva García (Coordinador)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 2, 2011
El derecho a la salud se ubica, en la actualidad, como una de las exigencias vitales del hombre frente al Estado por ser un presupuesto lógico para la supervivencia, para la integridad personal y para el disfrute de las condiciones materiales que posibilitan el ejercicio real de la igualdad y de...
Medizin und Sprache die Sprache der Medizin
Medycyna i jzyk jzyk medycyny
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Medizin und Sprache – die Sprache der Medizin lautete das Thema der 14. Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin. Der Tagungsband umfasst 17 Beiträge, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven das Verhältnis von Sprache und Medizin thematisieren. Die Autoren diskutieren...
The Fetus as a Patient
A Contested Concept and its Normative Implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care. Accordingly, physicians tend to perceive the fetus as a patient and understand themselves as having certain professional duties towards it. However, it is far from...
by Sarah Devaney
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Hopes are high that stem cell (SC) research will lead to treatments and cures for some of the most serious diseases affecting humankind today. SC science has been used in a treatment setting in the replacement of patients’ windpipes and in restoring sight to patients who were blind in one eye and...
Regulations Regarding Living Organ Donation in Europe
Possibilities of Harmonisation
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Organ transplantation is a much-discussed subject, and the importance of living organ donation is increasing significantly. Yet despite all efforts, too few donor organs are available to help all patients in need. This book analyses whether the national legal regulations are also partly responsible...