Medical Law category: 575 books
Embedding New Technologies into Society
A Regulatory, Ethical and Societal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging. The evolving state of the scientific art, often-unquantifiable risks and ill-defined developmental trajectories have the potential to hinder innovation and/or the commercial success of a technology. The are, however, a number of tools...
by James Baehler, Sheldon M.D. Cohen M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
A patient dies on the operating table and the surgeon, Dr. Clifford Harris, is held responsible by both the hospital administration and the police. The cause of Wallberg's demise is at issue in the trial that follows.The tension builds to a stunning climax when the truth finally emerges."Bad...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gene Therapy
Legal, Ethical and Scientific Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Current therapies for most human genetic diseases are inadequate. In response to the need for effective treatments, modern molecular genetics is providing tools for an unprecedented new approach to the treatment of diseases; e.g. the direct manipulation of mutant genes or the input on new therapeutic...
Genetic Suspects
Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
As DNA forensic profiling and databasing become established as key technologies in the toolbox of the forensic sciences, their expanding use raises important issues that promise to touch everyone's lives. In an authoritative global investigation of a diverse range of countries, including those at...
The Psychology of Death Investigations
Behavioral Analysis for Psychological Autopsy and Criminal Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The Psychology of Death Investigations outlines definitively how behavioral evidence can often provide the necessary components and "missing pieces" to complement physical evidence as an essential tool for incident reconstruction. In order to determine the direction of an investigation and...
by Lawrence O. Gostin
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Despite global progress, staggering health inequalities between rich and poor raise basic questions of social justice. Defining the field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective governance and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right.
Witness Testimony in Sexual Cases
Evidential, Investigative and Scientific Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Sexual cases are inherently complex and sometimes controversial presenting the practitioner with a multitude of procedural and legal challenges. The increasing number of sexual cases, often historic, places significant demands upon the criminal justice system. Sexual crime is recognised as a specialist...
Governance of Teaching Hospitals
Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What forces lead to changes in governance among medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals? To what extent do such changes affect how well those schools and hospitals do their work? In this book, John A. Kastor, M.D., focuses on the academic medical centers of the University of Pennsylvania...
Disabled People and the Right to Life
The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.
'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework, both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social, legal and political measures to counter...
Causation and Responsibility
An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal...
Side Effects
A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
As the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe, Alison Bass's front-page reporting on conflicts of interest in medical research stunned readers, and her series on sexual misconduct among psychiatrists earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Now she turns her investigative skills to a controversial...
Global Perspectives on ADHD
Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Attention deficithyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less common—even unknown—in other parts of the world. By the end of the twentieth century, this was no longer...
Duties to Care
Dementia, Relationality and Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The world of dementia care can be a difficult one for carers to navigate, posing new challenges at every stage from diagnosis to end of life. In her ground-breaking investigation, rooted in original empirical data, Rosie Harding explores the regulatory and legal dimensions of caring for a person with...
by Lorraine Fox Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Child care law and policy issues generate very strong emotions and some crucial questions concerning the role of the state. For instance, under what circumstances should the state be able to intervene and use the force of the law to protect children? Do children have similar rights to adults? Such...