Medical Law Legislation category: 315 books
Safety Evaluation of Biotechnologically-derived Pharmaceuticals
Facilitating a Scientific Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Considerable investment has been made by both pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in pharmaceutical products of biotechnology. However, because relatively few of these products have been marketed, lack of relevant experience means that uncertainty still surrounds the most appropriate strategy...
by Dr. K. Jeffrey Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This book is a must have for all doctors of chiropractic!Medicare documentation is more scrutinized today than ever before, and most doctors are being driven crazy by the scrutiny. This book, Chiropractic Medicare Documentation Self-Inventory was written to help doctors document properly, increase...
Psychiatric Criminology
A Roadmap for Rapid Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, emergency first responders and social workers with little experience in recognizing symptoms, triggers and issues. This book addresses the need to recognize...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court. The book avoids standard applications, such as the insanity defense and specific capacity assessments, in favor of those that may be controversial or require evidentiary...
Rationality and the Genetic Challenge
Making People Better?
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Häyry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning and stem cell research, gene therapies and enhancements. The ethical questions explored include parental...
Six Lives in Jerusalem
End-of-Life Decisions in Jerusalem — Cultural, Medical, Ethical and Legal Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
whether the patient is suffering? Should the ability to think and reason be considered as the most important factor? For instance, should a patient with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who is mentally alert yet unable to move from the neck down be allowed to refuse medical treatment; and, if so,...
Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel
Socio-legal, Political, and Empirical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone in the comparative literature of bioethics. Bringing together a range of experts, the book's interdisciplinary structure employs a contemporary, sociopolitical-oriented...
Leihmutterschaft in Deutschland
Rechtfertigen die Menschenwuerde und das Kindeswohl ein striktes Verbot?
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Dieses Buch gewährt einen Überblick über den historischen Werdegang, die medizinischen Grundlagen und die Regelungen zur Leihmutterschaft. Es wertet aktuelle entwicklungspsychologische Studien zum Wohlbefinden der auf diese Weise geborenen Kinder aus. Der Gesetzgeber begründet das strikte Verbot...
Der Schutz genetischer Daten
Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gendiagnostikgesetzes
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Die inzwischen weit fortgeschrittenen Möglichkeiten der Analyse menschlichen Erbmaterials rufen einerseits Hoffnung und Erwartungen, andererseits eine diffuse Angst vor genetischem Determinismus und Reduktionismus hervor. Aber welches Wissen vermittelt ein Gentest überhaupt? Genetische Testergebnisse...
Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods
The Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national governments. In this book, experts from a range of backgrounds provide insights into the legal implications of regulating tobacco,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Health is a matter of fundamental importance in European societies, both as a human right in itself, and as a factor in a productive workforce and therefore a healthy economy. New health technologies promise improved quality of life for patients suffering from a range of diseases, and the potential...
Pioneering Healthcare Law
Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier’s outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects developed in Professor Brazier’s agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia,...
by Helen Carr, David Goosey
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Law for Social Workers has been supporting social work students and professionals for over 25 years. Written by an expert team with practical experience, this book provides the perfect combination of legal explanation and practical insight and is the ideal text to see students through their course...
by Erin Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Reproductive choices are at once the most private and intimate decisions we make in our lives and undeniably also among the most public. Reproductive decision making takes place in a web of overlapping concerns - political and ideological, socio-economic, health and health care - all of which engage...