Medical Law category: 575 books
Criminalising Contagion
Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The use of the criminal law to punish those who transmit disease is a topical and controversial issue. To date, the law (and the related academic literature) has largely focused on HIV transmission. With contributions from leading practitioners and international scholars from a variety of disciplines,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The third edition of this award-winning textbook has been revised and thoroughly updated. Building on the success of the previous editions, it continues to address the history and practice of forensic psychiatry, legal regulation of the practice of psychiatry, forensic evaluation and treatment, psychiatry...
Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span 2e, Volume 1
Investigation, Diagnosis, and the Multidisciplinary Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
462 pages, 192 images, 38 contributors This first volume serves as a complete guide for multidisciplinary team members involved in the investigation of sexual assault. It includes comprehensive medical guides for the diagnosis and treatment of assaultive trauma; legal guides to investigation and prosecution;...
The Cure in the Code
How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Never before have two revolutions with so much potential to save and prolong human life occurred simultaneously. The converging, synergistic power of the biochemical and digital revolutions now allows us to read every letter of life's code, create precisely targeted drugs to control it, and tailor...
The Ethics of Personalised Medicine
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In recent times, the phrase ’personalised medicine’ has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future. However, a controversial debate has developed around whether these promises of better, more personal and more cost-efficient medicine are realistic. This...
Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma, Volume 1
Traumatic Injuries Pocket Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
228 pages, 164 images, 28 contributors This complete overview of abusive head trauma includes the many different kinds of injuries that may result from abusive head trauma, including extracranial injuries and scalp trauma, intracranial injuries with and without associated bleeding, and fractures....
Fire and Rescue Services
Leadership and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
This unique text fills a major gap in the emergency services literature by surveying the research on fire and rescue service management in the UK. An extensive evidence base focuses on organizational culture, leadership skills, standards, and accountability, emphasizing the services’ dual roles...
Ethics and Health Care
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently...
Ambulance Services
Leadership and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider healthcare networks. The challenges of funding, training...
Mental Health in the War on Terror
Culture, Science, and Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Neil Krishan Aggarwal's timely study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism. In the process, the state has used psychiatrists and psychologists to furnish knowledge on undesirable populations,...
Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance
A Foucauldian Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution.
Looking at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues of genetic privacy and discrimination...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Widely used by practitioners, researchers, and students--and now thoroughly revised with 70% new material--this is the most authoritative, comprehensive book on malingering and other response styles. Leading experts translate state-of-the-art research into clear, usable strategies for detecting intentional...
Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span 2e, Volume 3
Special Settings and Survivor Populations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
260 pages, 194 images, 17 contributors Sexual assault responders working among, or associated with, assault survivors in assisted living homes, academic institutions, correctional facilities, and more will benefit from an uncommonly focused and precise study of the populations they serve. With chapters...
Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span 2e, Volume 2
Evaluation of Children and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
344 pages, 253 images, 26 contributors This second volume focuses on the particular needs of sexual assault survivors in various age groups, including chapters on child sexual abuse and sexual violence against adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Readers will enjoy the benefit of specially tailored...