Medical Law Legislation category: 315 books
by Professor Emily Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The principal purpose of this book is to tell the story of a medicine's journey through the regulatory system in the UK, from defining what counts as a medicine, through clinical trials, licensing, pharmacovigilance, marketing and funding. The question of global access to medicines is addressed because...
Reconsidering Law and Policy Debates
A Public Health Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This book approaches a variety of social and political issues that have become highly polarized and resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective. The topics included are some of the most contentious: abortion and reproductive rights; end-of-life issues,...
Ethical and legal debates in Irish healthcare
Confronting complexities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. This collection provides a foundation for ongoing engagement with selected issues in contemporary Irish health contexts. It includes contributions from scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines....
Bioethics
Methods, Theories, Domains
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book, the first in a series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at national and international levels. The volume provides a serious...
Advance Care Decision Making in Germany and Italy
A Comparative, European and International Law Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
What is the situation of people who are unable to make decisions due to a physical or mental change? This book gives impulses and answers to many ethical, economical and mainly legal questions which arise and are associated with the end of life. A universal human rights approach and the analysis of...
Governing Public Health
EU Law, Regulation and Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book contributes towards EU studies and the growing discourse on law and public health. It uses the EU's governance of public health as a lens through which to explore questions of legal competence and its development through policy and concrete techniques, processes and practices, risk and security,...
by Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the hottest issues heading into President Barack Obama's second term as president. Passed in early 2010 amidst extreme controversy and general public negativity, the bill still has yet to be fully understood by laypeople and legal experts alike.
Because...
Intoxication and Society
Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means to be human. In the tensions between 'free' and uninhibited consumption on the one hand, and the pressures of...
The Nanotechnology Challenge
Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Nanotechnology is the wave of the future, and has already been incorporated into everything from toothpaste to socks to military equipment. The safety of nanotechnology for human health and the environment is a great unknown, however, and no legal system in the world has yet devised a way to reasonably...
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property
Property Rights in Dead Bodies, Body Parts, and Genetic Information
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of property law is capable of controlling the interests generated by the engineering of human tissues. Through a comparative consideration of non-Western societies and industrialized cultures, this book addresses...
Pills for the Poorest
An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era. Pills for the Poorest offers a new perspective on the much-debated issue of the links between intellectual property and access to medication. Using...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth. It contains essays from a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine, anthropology, history and sociology, examining birth...
The Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction
Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Posthumous reproduction refers to the procedure that enables a child to be conceived using the gametes of a dead person. Advances in reproductive technology mean it is now possible to assist in creating a life after you die, and in recent years the number of women who have attempted to get pregnant...