Medical Law category: 575 books
by Ulrich Storz, Martin Quodbach, Scott D. Marty
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents presents timely reports on intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. This volume focus on particular aspects of the US patent law, which can have tremendous differences compared to the European law. This includes questions...
Coroners' Courts
A Guide to Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Coroners' Courts follows the coroner's investigation of a death from initial report to the inquest conclusion and subsequent issues including prevention of future deaths reports. The book is an easy to read reference for those involved in the coronial system. It also provides clear, step by step guidance...
Child Abuse Quick Reference 3e
For Health Care, Social Service, and Law Enforcement Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
490 pages, 174 images, 64 contributors The Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the multidisciplinary response to child abuse. It features updated models for the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of child abuse as...
Munchausen by Proxy and Other Factitious Abuse
Practical and Forensic Investigative Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book covers Munchausen and Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) though the terms have recently changed. The 2013 DSM-V—the update to the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) diagnostic and classification tool—has classified both Munchausen and MBP as "Factitious Systematic Abuse." While...
by David Marshall QPM
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Crimes against children are some of the most serious and demanding investigations that a police force can be involved with. It is an extremely specialised crime area, with its own legislation, case law, guidance and crucial multi-agency working. This book offers a practical operational guide to managing...
Caring Autonomy
European Human Rights Law and the Challenge of Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Despite its absence in the written text of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights now regularly uses the concept of autonomy when deciding cases concerning assisted dying, sexuality and reproductive rights, self-determination, fulfilment of choices and control...
Privacy and the Past
Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical and legal challenges—even in cases where their subjects had died years, or even a century, earlier. In Privacy and the Past, medical historian Susan C....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes. For the purposes of this book, human error encompasses mismanagement of medical care due to:
* inadequacies or ambiguity in the design of a medical device or...
Equitable Access to Human Biological Resources in Developing Countries
Benefit Sharing Without Undue Inducement
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The main question explored by the book is: How can cross-border access to human genetic resources, such as blood or DNA samples, be governed in such a way as to achieve equity for vulnerable populations in developing countries? The book situates the field of genomic and genetic research within global...
Pharmaceutical Freedom
Why Patients Have a Right to Self Medicate
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
If a competent adult refuses medical treatment, physicians and public officials must respect her decision. Coercive medical paternalism is a clear violation of the doctrine of informed consent, which protects patients' rights to make medical decisions even if a patient's choice endangers her health....
by Wendy E. Parmet
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Law plays a crucial role in protecting the health of populations. Whether the public health threat is bioterrorism, pandemic influenza, obesity, or lung cancer, law is an essential tool for addressing the problem. Yet for many decades, courts and lawyers have frequently overlooked law’s critical importance...
by Paula Gerber, Katie O'Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the underexplored issues of how domestic and international law is responding to the sharp increase in the use of surrogacy. The work presents critical analysis...
Start Your Own Medical Practice
A Guide to All the Things They Don't Teach You in Medical School about Starting Your Own Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
After years of school and maybe even after some years of practice, you are ready to do it on your own.
Running a profitable business takes more than just being a great doctor. Start Your Own Medical Practice provides you with the knowledge to be both a great doctor and a successful business...
Law and Global Health
Current Legal Issues Volume 16
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought....