Medical Law Legislation category: 315 books
Human Population Genetic Research in Developing Countries
The Issue of Group Protection
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genetic diversity has developed. This book asks whether developing countries are well prepared for the ethical and legal conduct of human population genetic...
Matching Organs with Donors
Legality and Kinship in Transplants
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplanting...
Ethics, Law and Society
Volume IV
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces written in response to specific ethical issues....
Informed Consent
Patient Autonomy and Physician Beneficence within Clinical Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Substantial efforts have recently been made to reform the physician-patient relationship, particularly toward replacing the `silent world of doctor and patient' with informed patient participation in medical decision-making. This 'new ethos of patient autonomy' has especially insisted on the routine...
Keep Out of Court
A medico-legal casebook for midwifery & neonatal nursing
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Leading Health Law Educator, Amelda Langslow LLB, examines over 85 court cases dealing with the injury and death of mothers and babies in maternity services.
In these real -life cases you will read how midwives, neonatal nurses, and obstetricians justified their actions in court. Was someone...
Infant Feeding
Anatomy of a Controversy 1973–1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Infant Feeding is about a controversy which fascinated the medical and scientific world, as well as national and international health authorities, politicians, religious groups and consumer organisations, for more than 11 years. It often disturbed public opinion, being concerned, as it is, with nothing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries’ political and health service agendas. The World Health Organisation has launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Millions of patients, according to the Alliance, endure prolonged ill-health,...
Regulating Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis
A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other more...
The Spine for Lawyers
ABA Medical-Legal Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Injuries involving the spine are the most common compensation claims in the United States. ABA Medical-Legal Guides: The Spine for Lawyers is designed to help practitioners, judges and insurance professionals understand the multifaceted medical and legal issues in a claim involving this part...
Governing Biobanks
Understanding the Interplay between Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Biobanks are proliferating rapidly worldwide because they are powerful tools and organisational structures for undertaking medical research. By linking samples to data on the health of individuals, it is anticipated that biobanks will be used to explore the relationship between genes, environment...
The Generosity of the Dead
A Sociology of Organ Procurement in France
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems. This study uses the French case to challenge this widely held assumption and argues that the French...
Personalized Medicine in Healthcare Systems
Legal, Medical and Economic Implications
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
This book gathers scientific contributions on comprehensive approaches to personalized medicine. In a systematic and clear manner, it provides extensive information on the methodological, technological, and clinical aspects of high-throughput analytics, nanotechnology approaches, microbiota/human...
The Life You Save
Nine Steps to Finding the Best Medical Care-and Avoiding the Worst
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Millions of Americans suffer from indifferent, outdated health care; an estimated 40,000 incidents of medical harm happen every day. The good news is that you can prevent this from happening to you or a family member. Better yet, you can find the very best care in the world. Patrick Malone’s sensible...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Speaking from and to the growing movement among academics to become involved with 'socially-engaged' work, this volume presents first-person case studies of attempts to fix serious ethical problems in medical practice and research. It highlights the critical difference between the pundit approach...