Medical Law category: 575 books
by Jon Merrills, Jonathan Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Pharmacy Law and Practice, Fifth Edition provides a straightforward and useable guide for students, practitioners, academics and others interested in pharmacy law and practice in the United Kingdom. This multi-dimensional book includes discussions of socio-political influences on legal developments...
Social Work and the Law
Proceedings of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Examine cutting-edge research on the social worker’s role in the legal system!
Social Work and the Law: Proceedings of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, 2000 addresses the issues and concerns facing social workers who deal with law and the legal system. This comprehensive...
by Gabriel Hallevy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book challenges the assumptions of modern criminal law that insanity is a natural, legally and medically defined phenomenon (covering a range of medical disorders). By doing so, it paves the way for a new perspective on insanity and can serve as the basis for a new approach to insanity in modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.
The first part discusses the application of competition law in the pharmaceutical sector, which continues to be a focus for anti-trust authorities...
Personal Injury and Damage Ascertainment under Civil Law
State-of-the-Art International Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This volume serves to provide an international overview of personal injury compensation in different geographical areas (15 countries already included), with a special focus on the methods used to ascertain the injury and the related damages. It also goes on to clarify the logical and methodological...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law covers the breadth and depth of health law, with contributions from the most eminent scholars in the field. The Handbook paints with broad thematic strokes the major features of American healthcare law and policy, its recent reforms including the Affordable Care...
Drugs and Justice
Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs. Drugs generally fall into one of seven categories: prescription, over the counter, alternative medicine, common-use drugs like alcohol, tobacco and...
Ethics, Law and Governance of Biobanking
National, European and International Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine. Genomics challenges our values and has always been controversial and difficult to regulate. In the future lies the promise of tailored medical treatments and pharmacogenomics but the borders between medical...
The Lure of Hope
On the Transnational Surrogacy Trail from Australia to India
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Lure of Hope portrays a snap shot of the rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in India. By chance, the author’s fieldwork began around the same time NSW legislation in Australia extended its ban on commercial surrogacy to include overseas arrangements. Not long after returning from fieldwork...
Patently Innovative
How Pharmaceutical Firms Use Emerging Patent Law to Extend Monopolies on Blockbuster Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Patently innovative provides a review of the importance of traditional patent law and emerging linkage regulations for pharmaceutical products on the global stage, with a focus on the linkage regime in Canada. The primary focus is on how innovation in the pharmaceutical sector can be strongly regulated...
Manifest Madness
Mental Incapacity in the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Whether it is a question of the age below which a child cannot be held...
Depression
Law and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Depression is amorphous. It defies easy generalization, and eludes medical and legal categories. Is it part of the self, or its predator? Can a sufferer be held responsible for their actions? This edited collection provides a holistic study of a protean illness. If the law is to regulate the lives...
Principles of Addictions and the Law
Applications in Forensic, Mental Health, and Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The book includes an examination of sources of law important to addiction and its treatment. The foundations for forensic work in professional legal testimony is explored (e.g., legal system, case law precedent, statutes governing addictions, civil and criminal procedures). The science of addiction...
Inalienable Rights
The Limits of Consent in Medicine and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors. McConnell develops compelling arguments to support the inalienability of the right to life, the right of conscience, and a competent person's right not to have medical treatment administered without...