Medical Law category: 575 books
Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Fourth Edition
A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address. The volume demystifies the forensic psychological assessment process and provides...
by Jonathan P. Wyatt, Tim Squires, Guy Norfolk
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Forensic medicine covers an amazing range of different subjects and no single individual can expect to be an expert in all of them. The Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine provides comprehensive coverage of all areas within this complex discipline. Written for specialists and non-specialists alike,...
The Clinic and the Court
Law, Medicine and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play a central role in the politics of harm, making decisions regarding what counts as injury and what might be the most suitable forms of redress or remedy. But where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings...
Testamentary Capacity
Law, Practice, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Testamentary capacity is an increasingly difficult and important area in will preparation. The rise in capacity issues, associated with the increasing aging population and longer life expectancy, has become a fruitful area for dispute and litigation. This book equips practitioners with the knowledge...
Poisons
An Introduction for Forensic Investigators
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
A unique book on recognition and investigation
of criminal poisoning for investigators
of all backgrounds and stages of their careers.
Poisons: An Introduction for Forensic Investigators is a concise yet comprehensive overview of toxicants and unanticipated circumstances in which...
Understanding Circumcision
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Every year, in the United States and the third world combined, 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are circumcised. Whether because of perceived medical, cultural, or religious necessity, most of these parents feel they have no alternative but to allow their children to undergo this surgery. Sparking...
Flawed Convictions
"Shaken Baby Syndrome" and the Inertia of Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law. As often occurs in the context of scientific knowledge, understandings of SBS have evolved. We now know that the diagnostic triad alone does not prove beyond...
Veterinary Forensics
Investigation, Evidence Collection, and Expert Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Veterinary Forensics: Investigation, Evidence Collection, and Expert Testimony will provide anyone involved in an investigation of an animal involved crime or civil action with the knowledge and tools that can give guidance for their actions in completing a forensic investigation.
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by Mark Davison, Ann Monotti, Leanne Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Intellectual property law in Australia is a constantly changing field. Developments in technology, such as in the life sciences and in the digitisation of the creation, analysis, distribution and use of information, along with economic globalisation, are having an increasingly significant impact on...
Genomic Messages
How the Evolving Science of Genetics Affects Our Health, Families, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Two leaders in the field of genetics—a bioethicist-health lawyer and an obstetrician-gynecologist geneticist—answer the most pressing questions about the application of new genetics to our universal medicine and what personalized medicine means for individual healthcare.
Breakthroughs in...
Mad-Doctors in the Dock
Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Managing Medical Devices within a Regulatory Framework helps administrators, designers, manufacturers, clinical engineers, and biomedical support staff to navigate worldwide regulation, carefully consider the parameters for medical equipment patient safety, anticipate problems with equipment, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Medical evidence plays a vital part in many criminal prosecutions, most notably when serious injury or physical abuse is part of the prosecution's case. Now in its third edition, this book is an essential text for practitioners of clinical forensic medicine and for those who take them through judicial...
Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 4
Investigation, Documentation, and Radiology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
250 pages, 505 images, 12 contributors In the investigation of child abuse, consistent investigative protocol and clear, thorough documentation of facts and findings are essential to ensuring justice for victims, both for those who survive and for those who do not. In order to achieve the best possible...