Medical Law category: 575 books
by Nigel Eastman, Gwen Adshead, Simone Fox
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Forensic Psychiatry is the first book to cover the clinical, legal and ethical issues for the treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland jurisdictions. Written by an expert interdisciplinary team from the fields of both law and psychiatry, including...
by Valerie Kerruish
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
In Jurisprudence as Ideology, Valerie Kerruish asks how it is that people who are put down, let down and kept down by law can be thought to have a general political obligation to obey it. She engages with contemporary issues in socialist, feminist and critical legal theory, and links these issues to debates in jurisprudence and the philosophy and sociology of law.
Abortion
History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people...
Health Disparities in the United States
Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice magazine
The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide health disparities persist between different social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. Donald A....
Neuroethics
Anticipating the future
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Over the last decade, there have been unparalleled advances in our understanding of brain sciences. But with the development of tools that can manipulate brain function, there are pressing ethical implications to this newfound knowledge of how the brain works. In Neuroethics: Anticipating the Future,...
Introduction to U.S. Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Home to the world's most advanced medical practices, the United States spends more on health care than any other country. At the same time, treatment is harder to get in the United States than in most other industrialized nations. Benchmark statistics such as infant mortality and life expectancy reveal...
Sophistication Honors
Syncronic Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book is a documentary dialogue regarding medical and all legal criteria for Veteran's benefits. This is a manuscript of documents from 1968 with all legal dialogue of Veteran service organizations, medical faculties, United States Senate and Congress to edify Veteran's benefits in general, especially...
Haftung wegen Bruchs der aerztlichen Schweigepflicht in Deutschland und in Korea
Eine vergleichende Untersuchung
Language: German
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Die Studie untersucht die Schweigepflicht des Arztes und dessen Offenbarungspflicht. Unter diesem Aspekt wird die deutsche Rechtslage mit derjenigen in Korea verglichen. Das Buch gliedert sich in fünf Teile: Im ersten Teil geht es um die Rechtsgrundlagen der ärztlichen Schweigepflicht und um deren...
Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception
A Psychophysiological and International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Polygraphy;' "lie detection;' and the "detection of deception" are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes. The issues raised by polygraphy...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
As the average age of the U.S. population continues to increase, age-related policies have come under intense scrutiny, sparking heated debates. In the past, older people were seen as a frail, dependent population, but major policies enacted or expanded on their behalf have made them major players...
Litigating Health Rights
Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health?
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable for these obligations. It asks who benefits both directly and indirectly—and what the overall impacts on health equity are. Included are case studies from Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
Medicaid Politics
Federalism, Policy Durability, and Health Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans. As private health insurance benefits have relentlessly eroded, the program has played an increasingly important role. Yet Medicaid’s prominence...
Drugs, Women, and Justice
Roles of the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Affected Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A unique interdisciplinary exploration of a pressing social issue
The numbers of women offenders involved in the correctional system are quickly growing. Drugs, Women, and Justice: Roles of the Criminal Justice System for Drug-Affected Women gathers a distinguished group of researchers and...
Perfecting Pregnancy
Law, Disability, and the Future of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and more extensive preimplantation testing promise...